Provides synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civil... » 

Provides synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the rise of the Greek civilization in the eight century BC. With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, this work argues that many characteristics of Ancient Greece developed in the Dark Ages. «