Tony Spawforth > Quotes

“From around 3000 BC, bronze objects start to be found in Greece alongside copper ones.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“In 1968, in a cave, not exactly on a mountain but on a seaside headland in southern Greece, American archaeologists found a caveman from the Stone Age.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“Why the end came when it did, and how, no one really knows. Fire engulfed the palaces around 1200 BC in a general catastrophe devastating Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos and Thebes.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“The ancient Greeks had many legends about Crete’s former greatness. These centred on a king called Minos who lived at a place called Knossos:”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“Just by looking at them you can see that many of these pots show great technical virtuosity. The style originated around 1050 BC. Its advent marks an unmistakable, if modest, sign of a return of more settled conditions in some parts of Greece, allowing cultural ambitions slowly to rise. Over the next three centuries the style became common to the whole Aegean region and defines a shared culture: ‘Geometric Greece’, as some archaeologists label the period.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“Later Greeks located Troy on the north-west coast of Turkey, near the Dardanelles.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

“In those impoverished times, makers and users of pots no longer lived in a human environment demanding well-crafted objects. The catastrophic events of around 1200 BC had triggered nothing less than a societal collapse.”
― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome

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― Tony Spawforth, The Story of Greece and Rome