New light on a dark age
Subtitle: exploring the culture of geometric Greece
By: edited by Susan Langdon.
Contributors: Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Civilization, Homeric -- Congresses.; Cults -- Greece -- Congresses.; Greece -- History -- Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C. -- Congresses.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: These essays, by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, reflect a diversity of approaches to studying the development of the early Iron Age. They cover four major topics: evidence for the rise of the polis, sources and uses of artistic form and iconography, developments in cults around Greece, and issues of poetry and narrative.

Linking these topics are the themes of social change; mortuary practices; growth and use of sacred places; social, literary, and artistic applications of style; and Greece and the outside world. Focusing specifically on developments within Greece and incorporating critical new assessments of archaeological, artistic, and literary evidence, New Light on a Dark Age makes an important contribution to the rapidly changing study of the Dark Age in Greece.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.