THE DARK AGE OF GREECE

by

Immanuel Velikovsky

CHAPTER I: THE HOMERIC QUESTION
The Setting of the Stage
Why No Literary Relics from Five Centuries?
Troy in the Dark Ages
The Dark Age in Asia Minor

The Homeric Question
The Allies of Priam
Aeneas
Olympic Games in the Iliad

CHAPTER II: MUTE WITNESSES
Troy and Gordion
The Lion Gate of Mycenae
Olympia
“The Scandal of Enkomi”
Tiryns

Mute Witnesses
A Votive Cretan Cave
Etruria
Sicily
Mycenae and Scythia

CHAPTER III: WORDS SET IN CLAY
Pylos
Linear B Deciphered
The Greek Pantheon

Mycenean City Names in the Iliad
The Mycenean Dialect
Cadmus

CHAPTER IV: A GAP CLOSED
Seismology and Chronology
Celestial Events in the Iliad
Changes in Land and Sea

A Gap Closed
Competing for a Greater Antiquity
Summing Up