Synopses & Reviews
""Citadel to City-State serves as an excellent summarization of our present knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue to the understanding of the subsequent Archaeic and Classical periods."" -- David Rupp, Phoenix
The Dark Age of Greece is one of the least understood periods of Greek history. A terra incognita between the Mycenaean civilization of Late Bronze Age Greece and the flowering of Classical Greece, the Dark Age was, until the last few decades, largely neglected. Now new archaeological methods and the discovery of new evidence have made it possible to develop a more comprehensive view of the entire period. Citadel to City-State explores each century from 1200 to 700 B.C.E. through an individual site -- Mycenae, Nichoria, Athens, Lefkandi, Corinth, and Ascra -- that illustrates the major features of each period. This is a remarkable account of the historical detective work that is beginning to shed light on Dark Age Greece.
Review
""Citadel to City-State serves as an excellent summarization of our present knowledge of the not-so-dark Dark Age as well as an admirable prologue to the understanding of the subsequent Archaeic and Classical periods.""
Synopsis
Carol Thomas draws on new evidence and re-interprets old data, in producing the most up-to-date account of Dark Age Greece. This book deals with the period following the collapse of the great Mycenaean civilisation of the Late Bronze Age, and details the process by which the first city-states developed and the arrival of the Classical age of Greece.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-190) and index.