Geometric Greece.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coldstream, J. N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Homeric.

Greece--Civilization.

Greece.

Greece--History--Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C.

Greece--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge Nov. 1979 Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Geometric Greece has long been the standard work on this absorbing period, which saw the evolution of the Greek city-states, the composition of the Homeric poems, the rise of the great Panhellenic sanctuaries and the first exodus of Greek colonists to southern Italy and Sicily.Professor Coldstream has now fully updated his comprehensive survey with a substantial new chapter on the abundant discoveries and developments made since the book's first publication.The text is presented in three main sections: the passing of the dark ages, c. 900-770 BC; the Greek renaissance, c. 7

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; ISOLATION: THE EARLY NINTH CENTURY; THE AWAKENING IN THE MID-NINTH CENTURY; CONSOLIDATION: LATE NINTH TO EARLY EIGHTH CENTURY; ATHENS AND ATTICA; THE ARGOLID, ARCADIA, LACONIA, AND MESSENIA; CORINTH AND WEST GREECE; EUBOEA, BOEOTIA, THESSALY, AND THE CYCLADES; ITALY AND SICILY: TRADE AND COLONIES; EASTERN GREECE AND ANATOLIA; CRETE; THE RECOVERY OF LITERACY; TOWNS AND VILLAGES; SANCTUARIES, GODS, AND VOTIVES; RECOLLECTION OF A HEROIC PAST; ORIENTAL INFLUENCES; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SITE INDEX

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-135-83519-5

1-280-40453-1

0-203-47278-0

0-203-24069-3

9780203472781

OCLC:

191031530