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Some scholars have argued against the concept of a Greek Dark Age, on grounds that the former lack of archaeological evidence in a period that was mute in its lack of inscriptions (thus "dark") is an accident of discovery rather than a fact of history. [37] [38] As James Whitley has put it, "The Dark Age of Greece is our conception. It is a ...
2.1 Late Bronze Age: Homeric Age of the Iliad (circa 1200 BC) 2.1.1 Hellenes. ... Pre-Greek and non-Greek tribes who became hellenized and whom some of the later ...
Ancient Greece usually encompasses Greek antiquity, as well as part of the region's late prehistory (Late Bronze Age). It lasted from c. 1,200 BC – c. AD 600 and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1,100–800 BC; Archaic period, 800–490 BC; Classical period, 490–323 BC
The Homeric Question and the Oral-Formulaic Theory. D. Appleton and Company. Kahane, Ahuvia (2005). Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7391-1134-5. Kirk, Geoffrey S. (1962). The Songs of Homer. Cambridge University Press. Lord, Albert (1960). The Singer ...
594 Solon, Athenian statesman, becomes Archon pre-582 BC (cf. ML6 and Plutarch Sol. 14)—later, when member of the Areopagus is appointed to effect social reforms in order to preserve order in Athens, which include the abolition of the security of debts on a debtor's person (Aristotle Ath. Pol. 6), returning exiled Athenian slaves (Solon fr. 4 ...
Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age is a book written by four-time British Prime Minister William Gladstone in 1858, discussing a range of issues in Homer including an original thesis on colour perception in Ancient Greece. [1] Gladstone was M.P. for the University of Oxford at the time of publication, but had been trained as a classicist.
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
In 1893, Tsountas published Mycenae and the Mycenaean Civilisation, which was expanded and translated into English in collaboration with the American classicist J. Irving Manatt as The Mycenaean Age: A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Pre-Homeric Greece in 1897. [34]