The Origins of Greek Civilization 1100-650 B.C.

by: Starr, C.G.

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 A challenging thesis about Greek prehistory―that the miraculous jump into the Greece of our history was made in the eleventh century B.C., during the pre-Christian Dark Ages. . . . An exciting book to read, eloquently written and beautifully illustrated.” ―The New Yorker When the great citadel of Mycenae, then the center of the Aegean world, went up in flames about 1100 B.C., what followed was a “dark age” that left no written records. But rich archaeological records show conclusively that there was a radical discontinuity between Mycenaean-Minoan culture and Greek civilization. Chester G. Starr argues that true Greek civilization was swiftly and spontaneously generated in a remarkably autonomous renaissance during the two centuries from 850 to 650 B.C. Supporting his thesis with archaeological evidence previously unavailable to historians, he offers a masterly reconstruction of an obscure and important period of Greek history.

Contents:
The early Aegean. The early ages of Greece
The rise and fall of the Mycenaean world
The Dark Ages. After the Mycenaean collapse
Two centuries of consolidation
The early eighth century
The age of revolution. The Orient and Greece
The intellectual upheaval: I
The intellectual upheaval: II
Society and the individual
The rise of the city-state
Economic quickening and colonization
Epilogue

Subjects:
Civilization
Greece
Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
Grèce Civilisation Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
To 146 B.C

xviii, 385, viii pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1961

The Origins of Greek Civilization 1100-650 B.C.

by: Starr, C.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780393307795 / 978-0-393-30779-5
• ISBN-03: 0393307794 / 0-393-30779-4
• W.W. Nortn & Company, New York, 1991

Price: 35,00 EURO

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