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 [...]
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07, 2017
Greek sculpture – ancient Greece
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 [...]
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07, 2017
Archaic sculpture in ancient Greece
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 [...]
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07, 2017
Greek Geometric Pottery
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 [...]
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Archaic Greece – Stone temples
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 [...]
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Archaic Greek architecture – the first Greek temples
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 [...]
