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Episode 8, The Dark Age and Homeric Society.

Following the destruction of the Myceny and Bronze Age culture, Greece descended into a period of oblivion and obscurity for several hundreds of years, known as the

Dark Age. So aptly named because the fortunes of the Greeks during this time seems generally

dark, at least compared to their Mycenaean ancestors.

Likewise, our understanding of this period is also generally dark.

In any event, as the Tribal Dorians prefer to pursue a simple life of agriculture instead of trade.

Mycinea and citadels were reduced to rubble. In the Bronze Age economy advances of the

palaces and their widespread Mediterranean trade network were all lost.

Although there were some signs of continuity in art with pottery, there were no more wall paintings and there was a loss of monumental architecture

because it was a huge expenditure to quarry cut and lift the stone needed on that scale.

So our evidence of this period is very scanty. Basically all we have to go by in order to make

theories about what was happening are the contents found in burials. But even those

don't fully explain what was going on.

There is no doubt that there was widespread cultural decline taking place.

No luxury goods have been found in the tombs dating to this period,

reflecting a severe contraction in material culture and

standard of living. Craftsmen had nobody to work for anymore.

So the technology simply dropped away.

Greek writing in the form of Mycenae and Linear B tablets disappeared, reflecting both a lack of

goods to keep a tally of and the lack of a desire to keep records. Despite the disappearance

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