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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Explores the period from the end of the Bronze Age palaces to the emergence of Greek city states about five centuries later.
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 (1200800 BCE) Maria
Kostoglou; Part II. The Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, ca. 1050750
BCE:
6. Protogeometric (ca. 1050ca. 900 BCE) John K. Papadopoulos;
7.
Cyprus, tenth to seventh centuries BCE Louise Steel;
8. Geometric Greece, ca.
900700 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. 1200600 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. 750ca. 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.
Jane B. Carter is Associate Professor of Classical Studies Emerita, at Tulane University. She is the author of Greek Ivory-Carving in the Orientalizing and Archaic Periods and co-editor of The Ages of Home, and has excavated at numerous sites in Greece. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from 20162021. Carla Antonaccio is Professor of Classical Studies and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Emerita at Duke University. She is the author of An Archaeology of Ancestors and co-editor of Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World. She has excavated at Halieis, the Athenian Agora, Polis (Cyprus), and Morgantina (Sicily).
