The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Iron Age

Jane B. Carter is Associate Professor of Classical Studies Emerita, at Tulane University. She is the author of Greek Ivory-Carving in the Orientalizing and Archaic Periods and co-editor of The Ages of Home, and has excavated at numerous sites in Greece. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology from 2016–2021. Carla Antonaccio is Professor of Classical Studies and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Emerita at Duke University. She is the author of An Archaeology of Ancestors and co-editor of Classical Archaeology in Context: Theory and Practice in Excavation in the Greek World. She has excavated at Halieis, the Athenian Agora, Polis (Cyprus), and Morgantina (Sicily).

• List of tables and illustrations; Acknowledgments; Citations and Abbreviations; Introduction Jane B. Carter and Carla M. Antonaccio; Part I. The Postpalatial Period, ca. 1200– ca. 1050 BCE: 1. The transformation of the Mycenaean world: late Helladic IIIC and Submycenaean on the Greek mainland Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Birgitta Eder; 2. Late Helladic IIIC pottery and its mediterranean connections Jeremy Rutter; 3. Crete in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Melissa Eaby; 4. Cyprus in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 5. Iron in iron age Greece (1200–800 BCE) Maria Kostoglou; Part II. The Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, ca. 1050–750 BCE: 6. Protogeometric (ca. 1050–ca. 900 BCE) John K. Papadopoulos; 7. Cyprus, tenth to seventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 8. Geometric Greece, ca. 900–700 BCE Alexander Mazarakis Ainian; 9. Interregional relations between the Aegean and Syro-Anatolian worlds during the early first millennium BCE James F. Osborne; 10. Investigating difference: a view of iron age to archaic Crete Saro Wallace; 11. Athens, ca. 1200–600 BCE John K. Papadopoulos; 12. The eastern Aegean in the early iron age: Homeric landscapes from the bronze age to the archaic period Sarah Morris; Part III. Late geometric and after, ca. 750–ca. 650 BCE: 13. Connectivity, mobility, and identity in the early iron age Jan Paul Crielaard; 14. The arts and iconography of late geometric Greece Susan Langdon; 15. Greeks in Italy Franco de Angelis; 16. The Greeks and Egypt Jennifer Gates-Foster; 17. Corinth and the emergence of monumental stone architecture in Greece Jane B. Carter; Part IV. Afterword: Texts and Memory: 18. Scripts, dialects, and the epic tradition Margalit Finkelberg; 19. Homeric epic in the late eighth century BCE: ideologies of the present and 'memories' of the past Susan Sherratt; Bibliography of volumes cited.