Economy in Archaic Greece
Archaic Greek economy: A black-figure vase showing a blacksmith at work (Athens, about 550 BC) Not much trade in the Dark Ages During the political collapse of the Greek Dark [...]
Archaic Greek economy: A black-figure vase showing a blacksmith at work (Athens, about 550 BC) Not much trade in the Dark Ages During the political collapse of the Greek Dark [...]
Greek sculpture: Winged Victory (Nike of Samothrace) - Now in the Louvre, Paris What happened to all the Greek statues? Not very much Greek sculpture has survived for us to [...]
Archaic sculpture: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Life-size stone sculptures As the Greeks came out of the Dark Ages, about 1000 BC, they began to produce life-size stone sculpture [...]
Dipylon Vase (Geometric pottery), a grave marker from Athens. This vase is about six feet tall! Archaic period pottery Gradually the Sub-Mycenaean pottery of the Greek Dark Ages developed into [...]
Temple of Herakles, Agrigento, Sicily In early Archaic Greek temples, the columns and the roof were made of wood. To keep the wood from rotting, Greek builders put a flat stone under [...]
Temple of Hera, Paestum, Italy. There were no more kings in Greece after the Dark Ages, and so there were no more palaces or fancy tombs. Instead, people began to [...]