The Dark Ages of Greece and Homer & Geometric Art Bronze age ends around 1200 BCE Writing disappears with the palaces Dark ages -- no written records after 1200 BCE until our earliest record in greece 8th c BCE, writing returned Lots of competition among the cities Homer lived 8th c BCE (maybe) Homer was the bases of greek education throughout the ancient period and many centuries to follow (iliad and odyssey) o Focus on human actions Little interest in the natural world Repetition is embraced Rational explanations Tragic sense of life Setting is in the long ago and far away Style of homer's lifetime = geometric Orders - doric and ionic Atomistic - composed of many small elements (the vessels) Conceptual art - what one know