The Internal Situation

The development of iron technology, in the more advanced regions of Greece, has already provided a direct instance to the contrary. The very mention of Homeric burial-customs is almost enough to bring a smile to specialist faces. Scarcely a year goes past without the discovery of some grave or cemetery whose practices are remarked on for their resemblance to those of Homer. Many persuasive arguments have nevertheless been deployed to show that the origins of historical Greek religion, as with mythology, lay in Minoan and Mycenaean cult. Movements of traders and settlers within Greece, although no doubt on a modest scale, had perhaps continued sporadically through even the darkest years, but the evidence suggests that they were mainly confined to the shores of the Aegean Sea. There is one field in which a more general and less uneven advance is detectable, and that is architecture. One of the most important is the change in the character of Greek activity overseas.

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