There was an aristocracy that ruled during the Dark Ages, men, whose families had attained power, but these men were not rich, nor did they have the total power of the Mycenaean kings before them. The Dark Ages, according to these poems, was a time when kings had limited power. Kings are described as being poor farmers, thieves, and pirates. The poet Homer gives us our best look into this period in his poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. To understand the changes in the Archaic Period, we should review the Dark Ages of Greece. Between the Mycenaean times and the Archaic Period was the Greek Dark Ages, a time of low population, iron-making, lawlessness, lack of art, and illiteracy (not being able to read or write). Although we now know that Greek history dates back to the Mycenaean times, the Archaic Period was a time of re-birth. The Archaic, or old period of ancient Greece was, until the discovery of the Mycenaean Civilization, thought to have been the beginning of Greek history.
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