Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations 1. The Concept of a Dark Age 2. The Regional Pottery Styles 3. The Chronology of the Early Iron Age in Greece 4. The Grave 5. Iron and Other Metals 6. External Relations 7. The Internal Situation General Index Site Index

About the Author

A.M. Snodgrass is Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment (1980), An Archaeology of Greece (1987), and Homer and theArtists (1988).

Reviews

"A book which attempts much and achieves much. It has the paradoxical distinction of conjuring order and light from the shadows and uncertainties of a truly dark age." -- Antiquity
"A comprehensive archaeological and interpretive survey of the dark age...a study in which students of these formative centuries in Greek history will have an important handbook as well as find challenging ideas." -- American Journal of Archaeology