Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-383) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; ISOLATION: THE EARLY NINTH CENTURY; THE AWAKENING IN THE MID-NINTH CENTURY; CONSOLIDATION: LATE NINTH TO EARLY EIGHTH CENTURY; ATHENS AND ATTICA; THE ARGOLID, ARCADIA, LACONIA, AND MESSENIA; CORINTH AND WEST GREECE; EUBOEA, BOEOTIA, THESSALY, AND THE CYCLADES; ITALY AND SICILY: TRADE AND COLONIES; EASTERN GREECE AND ANATOLIA; CRETE; THE RECOVERY OF LITERACY; TOWNS AND VILLAGES; SANCTUARIES, GODS, AND VOTIVES; RECOLLECTION OF A HEROIC PAST; ORIENTAL INFLUENCES; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SITE INDEX.
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Geometric Greece has long been the standard work on this absorbing period, which saw the evolution of the Greek city-states, the composition of the Honeric poems, the rist of the great Panhellenic sanctuaries and the first exodus of Greek colonists to southern Italy and Sicily. Professor Coldstream has now fully updated his comprehensive survey with a substantial new chapter on the abundant discoveries and developments made since the book's first publication.