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

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

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...

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

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