1.3 Archaic Greece: A Clue
Last modified 07/01/2008
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We have already noted the resemblance of the case of 'Israel' with that
of Archaic Greece, both classic exemplars of the Axial transformation, along its
interval of action, ca. -900 to -400. In the case of Greece we see again the two
pieces, as it were, that make up one continuous history punctuated by the Axial
interval. In the case of Greece we have discovered parts of the first piece,
i.e. the Mycenaean era and its passing away into the Greek Dark Age, so-called,
followed by the spectacular, almost uncanny take off in its Archaic period,
resulting in the great flowering of Classical Greece, followed just as quickly
with a falling off, well underway by the period after -400. We note the
isomorphic character of the two cases, each piece in the sequence corresponding
to the other.
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