The Cambridge companion to the Greek iron age / Jane B. Carter, Tulane University, Carla M. Antonaccio, Duke University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Jane Burr, 1948- Author.

Antonaccio, Carla Maria, author.

Series:

Cambridge companions to the ancient world.

Cambridge companions to the ancient world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Greece.

Iron age.

Civilization, Mycenaean.

Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 599 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Greek iron age

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The transformation of the Mycenaean world : late Helladic IIIC and Submycenaean on the Greek mainland / Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Birgitta Eder

Late Helladic IIIC pottery and its Mediterranean connections / Jeremy Rutter

Crete in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE / Melissa Eaby

Cyprus in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE / Louise Steel

Iron in Iron Age Greece (1200-800 BCE) / Maria Kostoglou

Protogeometric (ca. 1050-ca. 900 BCE) / John K. Papadopoulos

Cyprus, tenth to seventh centuries BCE / Louise Steel

Geometric Greece, ca. 900-700 BCE / Alexander Mazarakis Ainian

Interregional relations between the Aegean and Syro-Anatolian worlds during the early first millennium BCE / James F. Osborne

Investigating difference : a view of Iron Age to Archaic Crete / Saro Wallace

Athens, ca. 1200-600 BCE / John K. Papadopoulos

The Eastern Aegean in the Early Iron Age : Homeric Landscapes from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Period / Sarah Morris Part

Connectivity, mobility, and identity in the Early Iron Age / Jan Paul Crielaard

The arts and iconography of late geometric Greece / Susan Langdon

Greeks in Italy / Franco de Angelis

The Greeks and Egypt / Jennifer Gates-Foster

Corinth and the emergence of monumental stone architecture in Greece / Jane B. Carter

Scripts, dialects, and the epic tradition / Margalit Finkelberg

Homeric epic in the late eighth century BCE : ideologies of the present and "memories" of the past / Susan Sherratt.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2026).

ISBN:

1-107-41502-0

9781009786058

9781009786034