Introduction

This book deals with Greek civilization from c. 900 to c.700 B.C., and is named after the Geometric style of pottery which flourished in Greek lands during these two centuries. The preceding and following periods are covered by two recent volumes in this series, V.R. d’A.Desborough’s The Greek Dark Ages (1972) and L.H.Jeffery’s Archaic Greece (1976). Within our period, darkness gives way to dawn: useful figurative terms, drawing attention to the changing nature of the evidence.