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Once considered a period of poverty and isolation, devoid of impressive material culture, the Iron Age is now regarded as a pivotal era. It witnessed how the ancient Greeks lost and regained literacy, created lifelike figural representations and monumental architecture, and eventually established new and complex civic polities. The Companion to the Greek Iron Age offers an up to date account of this critical epoch of Greek antiquity. Including archaeological surveys of different regions, it presents focused discussions of the Early Iron Age cultures and states with which Greek regions had contacts and which are integral for understanding cultural developments in this formative period. They include Cyprus, Syro-Anatolia, Italy, and Egypt, regions in which, as in Greece, the Early Iron Age is diverse and unevenly documented. Offering a synthesis of the key developments, The Companion to the Greek Iron Age also demonstrates how new archaeological and theoretical approaches have enlarged and clarified our understanding of this seminal period.
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List of tables and illustrations; Acknowledgments; Citations and Abbreviations; Introduction Jane B. Carter and Carla M. Antonaccio; Part I. The Postpalatial Period, ca. 1200- ca. 1050 BCE: 1. The transformation of the Mycenaean world: late Helladic IIIC and Submycenaean on the Greek mainland Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Birgitta Eder; 2. Late Helladic IIIC pottery and its mediterranean connections Jeremy Rutter; 3. Crete in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Melissa Eaby; 4. Cyprus in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 5. Iron in iron age Greece (1200-800 BCE) Maria Kostoglou; Part II. The Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, ca. 1050-750 BCE: 6. Protogeometric (ca. 1050-ca. 900 BCE) John K. Papadopoulos; 7. Cyprus, tenth to seventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 8. Geometric Greece, ca. 900-700 BCE Alexander Mazarakis Ainian; 9. Interregional relations between the Aegean and Syro-Anatolian worlds during the early first millennium BCE James F. Osborne; 10. Investigating difference: a view of iron age to archaic Crete Saro Wallace; 11. Athens, ca. 1200-600 BCE John K. Papadopoulos; 12. The eastern Aegean in the early iron age: Homeric landscapes from the bronze age to the archaic period Sarah Morris; Part III. Late geometric and after, ca. 750-ca. 650 BCE: 13. Connectivity, mobility, and identity in the early iron age Jan Paul Crielaard; 14. The arts and iconography of late geometric Greece Susan Langdon; 15. Greeks in Italy Franco de Angelis; 16. The Greeks and Egypt Jennifer Gates-Foster; 17. Corinth and the emergence of monumental stone architecture in Greece Jane B. Carter; Part IV. Afterword: Texts and Memory: 18. Scripts, dialects, and the epic tradition Margalit Finkelberg; 19. Homeric epic in the late eighth century BCE: ideologies of the present and 'memories' of the past Susan Sherratt; Bibliography of volumes cited.
