Episode 7: The Greek Dark Ages (1100 BC to 800 BC)

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The History of Constantinople

The History Buff

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A biography of the Queen of Cities in its many incarnations. Today, it is Istanbul, which is a Turkish rendering of the Greek phrase εἰς τὴν πόλιν (eis ten polin), meaning "in/to the city." That simply saying, "The City," was enough for the hearer to understand Constantinople, speaks volumes. Its history stretches back well before the Megarian Greeks arrived in the 7th Century BC . Later, in 330 AD, Constantine the Great proclaimed it the new Roman capital, or Nova Roma. It remained the Imperial capital of the Roman Empire for over a millennium until the Ottoman conquest of 1453 AD.

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Episode 7: The Greek Dark Ages (1100 BC to 800 BC) - Pt. 2

The History of Constantinople

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Episode 7: The Greek Dark Ages (1100 BC to 800 BC) - Pt. 2

Episode 7 (The Greek Dark Ages Part 2)

In this episode, we descend into the long twilight of the Greek Dark Ages, a period when the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces had left the Aegean world scattered, impoverished, and—at least in the archaeological record—eerily quiet. Yet across the centuries between 1100 and 800 BC, the seeds of Byzantion’s future were being sown. We follow the slow trickle of Greek-speaking migrants eastward, their iron tools and oral traditions carried across the wine-dark sea to the rugged shores of Thrace and the rich, contested lands of northwestern Anatolia. Here, amid Thracian tribes, Phrygian newcomers, and the lingering shadow of Hittite collapse, the Bosphorus was already a place of passage and peril, its currents binding and dividing worlds. We trace how shifting trade routes, the spread of the Greek alphabet’s precursors, and the forging of new warrior aristocracies began to knit together a cultural fabric that would, in time, support a city of global consequence. And while our sources—Homer’s epics, Hesiod’s laments, and the mute testimony of pottery shards—speak in fragments, they hint at a truth worth noting: even in an age called “dark,” the straits where Europe meets Asia were never truly asleep. By the dawn of the 8th century BC, the darkness was lifting, and the stage was set for the Archaic age—and for the founding of Byzantion itself.