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The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Iron Age
Author(s): Jane B. Carter (Editor), Carla M. Antonaccio
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: May 21, 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 612 pages
- ISBN-10: 110769549X
- ISBN-13: 9781107695498
Book Description
Once considered a period of poverty and isolation, devoid of impressive material culture, the Iron Age is now regarded as a pivotal era. It witnessed how the ancient Greeks lost and regained literacy, created lifelike figural representations and monumental architecture, and eventually established new and complex civic polities. The Companion to the Greek Iron Age offers an up to date account of this critical epoch of Greek antiquity. Including archaeological surveys of different regions, it presents focused discussions of the Early Iron Age cultures and states with which Greek regions had contacts and which are integral for understanding cultural developments in this formative period. They include Cyprus, Syro-Anatolia, Italy, and Egypt, regions in which, as in Greece, the Early Iron Age is diverse and unevenly documented. Offering a synthesis of the key developments, The Companion to the Greek Iron Age also demonstrates how new archaeological and theoretical approaches have enlarged and clarified our understanding of this seminal period.
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Explores the period from the end of the Bronze Age palaces to the emergence of Greek city states about five centuries later.
About the Author
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).
