1996/11/01 by Mary Aiken Littauer, J. H. Crouwel · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Ancient Near East History #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1996.tb00087.x
openalex publication_date 1996/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Summary. Chariots figure prominently in two recent books by Robert Drews. He considers these fast, horse‐drawn vehicles as having revolutionized warfare in Greece and the Near East in the second millennium B.C., with serious political and social implications. The present article, to a considerable extent based on earlier works by the authors, shows that several of Drews’ assertions are untenable and that chariots played a much less significant role than he would have us believe.