The Dark Age of Greece : : An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries BC / / Anthony Snodgrass.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Snodgrass, Anthony,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 250 line and half-tone illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614035);To be the first full and convincing historian of obscure centuries and the interpreter of a difficult and unpromising material culture is more than falls to most scholars in the course of a lifetime." So wrote the anonymous TLS reviewer in 1972. The Dark Age of Greece is now reissued with an extensive foreword in which the author considers what effect three decades of research and scholarship have had on his original findings and arguments. Professor Snodgrass constructs a narrative of four centuries of Greek history from an exhaustive synthesis of literary and archaeological evidence - pottery, burial-practices, architecture and metalwork, and what can be discovered of religion, commerce, and language. He argues that this was in truth a dark age, from the perspective both of scholarship and, more importantly, of the people who lived through it in poor, isolated communities, conscious of lost skills and departed glories. The recession was caused, he shows, not by external factors but by processes of internal collapse. And yet, although the book reveals material discontinuity, its ultimate conclusion is that at the most fundamental level of culture, human population, a continuity can be discerned, between the greatness of Mycenae and the rebirth of urban civilization, the dawning of the Classical age. The Dark Age of Greece remains the most comprehensive and coherent account of this period in the history of ancient Greece. It is a vital source of ideas and evidence for students, as full of interest as ever for the general reader."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword to the new edition -- 1. The Concept of a Dark Age -- The Literary Evidence -- Chronography -- Other Types of Evidence -- Notes -- 2. The Regional Pottery-styles -- Terminology -- The Latest Bronze Age Styles and the Problem of Submycenaean -- The Rise of Protogeometric and the Attic Series -- The Regional Grouping of the Pottery Styles -- Hand-made Wares -- Notes -- 3. The Chronology of the Early Iron Age In Greece -- Primary Dates and the Attic Series -- Other Evidence for Absolute Chronology -- Absolute Dating -- Notes -- 4. The Grave -- Principles of Classification -- Regional Developments -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix -- 5. Iron and Other Metals -- Technical Factors -- The Initial Spread of Iron-working -- The Hypothesis of Bronze-shortage -- Other Regions of Greece -- Conclusions: Isolation and Stagnation -- Crete, Macedonia and Epirus -- The Earlier Geometric Period -- The Later Geometric Period -- The Finds from the Sanctuaries -- Notes -- 6. External Relations -- The Evidence of Dialect and Tradition -- The Great Destructions -- The Second Wave of Disturbances -- Retrospect -- The Advent of Protogeometric -- The Revival of Communication -- The Final Emergence -- Notes -- 7. The Internal Situation -- Decline:the 12th and earlier 11th Centuries -- Isolation: the later 11th and earlier 10th Centuries -- Intimations of Poverty -- Political and Social Structure -- The Problem of Continuity in Religion and Art -- The Beginnings of Recovery: the late 10th to early 8th Centuries -- The Greek Renaissance: the middle and later 8th Century -- Historical Consciousness in Poetry and Art -- Notes -- General Index -- Site Index