THE DARK AGE OF GREECE

by

Immanuel Velikovsky

A Technical Note
Preface
The Reconstruction of Ancient History

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