Indiana University Press, 1999. Hardcover. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.37 x 9.52 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes glossary, author's notes, references, index, maps, and figures. 240 pp.
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ISBN: 9780253334961

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. The neglect
can be explained partly by the fact that the disruptions that brought down the Mycenaean
civilization left a landscape seemingly devoid
not only of large population centers but in many
places of any population at all. And the Dark
Age is dark, in large part, because it has left no
written records.

Development of new techniques in archaeological method and a new focus on the study of
how life was lived outside the great cities has
renewed scholarly interest in the Dark Age. This
attention has led to the discovery of new evidence and to the reevaluation of the old, and it
is now possible to develop a more comprehensive view of the entire period.

This book traces the process of change that
transformed the Bronze Age civilization into the
city-state culture of the Classical Age. Each cen-
tury from 1200 to 700 B.C.E. is explored
through an individual site- Mycenae, Nichoria,
Athens, Lefkandi, Corinth, and Ascra that illustrates the major features of each period. In-
tended to complement recent more exhaustive
and technical works, Citadel to City-State is a remarkable account of historical detective work
that is beginning to shed light on Dark Age
Greece.

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