Review of Citadel to City-State - The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E. by Craig Conant and Carol G. Thomas

The Greek dark ages

This book covers the 500 years from the collapse of Mycenean domination of the Greek mainland, through the dark ages, to the beginnings of the polis, or city-state. Due to lack of sources beyond archaeology and the occasional reference in later literature, the treatment is of necessity academic and technical. Thomas structures the book to cover a single…