Robert Drews (born March 26, 1936) is an American historian who is Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus at

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

. He received his B. A. from Northwestern College, his M. A. from

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

and his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. Drews specializes in

ancient history Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

and

prehistory Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

, in particular the evolution of

warfare War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regul ...

and of

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

Works

* ''The Greek Accounts of Eastern History''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, for the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1973 * ''Basileus: The Evidence for Kingship in Geometric Greece''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983 * ''In Search of the Shroud of Turin: New Light on its History and Origins''. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1984. * ''The Coming Of The Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and The Near East''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. * ''The End of The Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe 1200 B.C.'' Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. * (editor) ''Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family. Papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of Richmond, March 18–19, 2000''. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2001. * ''Early Riders: The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe''. London: Routledge, 2004. * ''Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe''. London: Routledge, 2017.

External links

Robert Drews website at Vanderbilt
Living people 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Johns Hopkins University alumni Northwestern College (Iowa) alumni University of Missouri alumni Vanderbilt University faculty 1936 births Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub