Presenting a synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age
up to the rise of the Greek civilization, the author examines the reasons why
the Dark Ages came about and the processes that enabled archaic Greece to
emerge from them.Following Oliver Dickinson's successful "The Aegean Bronze Age", this
excellent textbook is an up-to-date synthesis of the period between the
collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries
BC, right up to the rise of the Greek civilization in the eight century BC.
With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, Dickinson's
detailed examination of material and archaeological evidence argues that many
characteristics of Ancient Greece developed in the Dark Ages. He also includes
up-to-date coverage of the "Homeric question". This highly informative text
focuses on: the reasons for the Bronze age collapse which brought about the
Dark Age; the processes that enabled Greece to emerge from the Dark Age; the
degree of continuity from the Dark Age to later times. Dickinson has provided
an invaluable survey of this period that will not only be useful to specialists
and undergraduates in the field, but that will also prove highly popular with
the interested general reader.
