The dark age of Greece : an archaeological survey of the eleventh to the eighth centuries BC /

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Author / Creator:Snodgrass, Anthony M.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2001.
Description:xxxiv, 456 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4382865
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ISBN:0415936357 (hardback)
0415936365 (paperback)
Notes:Originally published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1971. With new foreword.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of 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
  • Qualities of the Submycenaean Style
  • The Subminoan Style
  • The Rise of Protogeometric and the Attic Series
  • The Regional Grouping of the Pottery Styles
  • (i). The Early or 'Advanced' Styles
  • The Argolid
  • Corinth
  • Thessaly
  • The Central Cyclades
  • Elis
  • Asia Minor
  • (ii). The Later Derivative Styles
  • Boeotia
  • Euboea
  • Phokis and Lokris
  • Macedonia
  • Dodecanese
  • N. Cyclades
  • Crete
  • (iii). The Independent Styles
  • Ithaka
  • Achaea
  • Messenia
  • Laconia
  • The Remaining Regions
  • Arcadia
  • E. Aegean Islands
  • Sicily: S. Italy
  • 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
  • First Category
  • Second Category
  • Third Category
  • Absolute Dating
  • The Attic Series
  • The Argolid
  • Corinth
  • Thessaly
  • Cyclades
  • Euboea
  • East Greece
  • Crete
  • Laconia
  • Ithaka
  • Rest of Greece
  • Sicily: S. Italy
  • Notes
  • 4.. The Grave
  • Principles of Classification
  • Interpretation of Grave-evidence
  • Regional Developments
  • Attica
  • The Argolid and Corinthia
  • Thessaly
  • Central Cyclades
  • Elis
  • Asia Minor
  • Boeotia
  • Euboea, Northern Cyclades
  • Phokis
  • Macedonia
  • The Dodecanese
  • Crete
  • Other Regions
  • Epirus
  • Western Colonies
  • Conclusions
  • (i). The Spread of Single Burial
  • (ii). Skeletal Evidence
  • (iii). The Changes in Rite
  • (iv). Other Inferences
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • 5.. Iron and Other Metals
  • Technical Factors
  • The Initial Spread of Iron-working
  • The Arrival of the Iron Age
  • Protogeometric Attica
  • The Argolid
  • Thessaly and Asia Minor
  • The Hypothesis of Bronze-shortage
  • Other Regions of Greece
  • Phokis
  • Skyros
  • Dodecanese
  • The Ionian Islands: Achaea
  • Other Areas
  • Conclusions: Isolation and Stagnation
  • Crete, Macedonia and Epirus
  • Crete
  • Macedonia
  • Epirus
  • The Earlier Geometric Period
  • Attica
  • The Argolid and Corinth
  • Crete
  • The Later Geometric Period
  • Fibulae and Pins
  • Defensive Armour
  • Offensive Weapons
  • The Finds from the Sanctuaries
  • Stratigraphy
  • Evidence from Pottery
  • Analogous Metal Types
  • Tripod Cauldrons
  • Notes
  • 6.. External Relations
  • The Evidence of Dialect and Tradition
  • The Great Destructions
  • The Evidence for Foreign Invasion
  • The Dorian Hypothesis
  • Alternative Explanations
  • The Second Wave of Disturbances
  • The Evidence of the Cist-tomb
  • The Evidence of Metal-types
  • The Significance of Metalwork in General
  • The Vardar Valley Invaders
  • Retrospect
  • Pottery
  • Metalwork
  • Cremation
  • The Advent of Protogeometric
  • Hand-made Pottery
  • The Revival of Communication
  • The Final Emergence
  • Notes
  • 7.. The Internal Situation
  • Decline: the 12th and earlier 11th Centuries
  • Depopulation
  • Isolation: the later 11th and earlier 10th Centuries
  • The Ionian Migration: Regional Diversity
  • Agriculture
  • Intimations of Poverty
  • Political and Social Structure
  • The Homeric World
  • The Problem of Continuity in Religion and Art
  • The Beginnings of Recovery: the late 10th to early 8th Centuries
  • Diffusion of Pottery-styles
  • Attica
  • Regional Limitations
  • Architecture
  • General Inferences
  • The Greek Renaissance: the middle and later 8th Century
  • Colonization
  • Representational Art
  • Regional Patterns
  • Intercommunication
  • Architecture
  • Sacred Buildings
  • Domestic Architecture
  • Historical Consciousness in Poetry and Art
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Site Index