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The 'archaic period in Greece' (750 BC–480BC) is referred as one of the five periods of Greek history, defined on the basis of pottery styles.
Beginning in around 620 and ending in 480 the term is also used in a broader sense for a period spanning from 750 - 480.
The Archaic period followed the Greek Dark Ages, and saw significant advancements in political theory, and the rise of democracy, philosophy, theatre, poetry, as well as the revitalisation of the written language (which had been lost during the Dark Ages).

Contents

8th-century revolution

Archaic art

Conflicts

Important Persons

Statesmen

Epic Poets

Philosophers

Lyric Poets

Logographers

Fabulists

See also

External links

8th-century revolution

During the Archaic Period, new political structures started to be formed. As the Greek population grew, the "oikos" or households of Kings, which dominated the political structure of the Dark Ages, started to transform into what is referred to as the "polis" or city-state.

'Greek Art History' Greek art 'Historical periods'

'Prehistoric Greece'

Cycladic art - Minoan art -Mycenean art - Protogeometric Art -Geometric art

'Art in Ancient Greece'

Archaic Greek art - Classical Greek Art - Hellenistic Art - Greco-Buddhist art -Greek Art in Roman times

'Medieval Greece'

Byzantine art - Macedonian art

'Post-Byzantine Greece'

Art in Ottoman Greece - Cretan School -Heptanese School

'Modern Greece'

Art in modern Greece - Munich SchoolContemporary Greek Art

Archaic art

The period takes its name from what, in art history, was considered the archaic or old-fashioned style of sculpture and other works of art/craft that were characteristic of this time, as opposed to the more natural look of work made in the following Classical period (see Classical sculpture).
During the period, the major sculptural forms were the kouros and its female equivalent the kore.
In pottery, the Archaic period sees the development of the Orientalizing style, which signals a shift from the Geometric Style of the later Dark Ages and the accumulation of influences derived from Phoenicia and Syria.
Pottery styles associated with the later part of the Archaic age are the black-figure pottery, which originated in Corinth during the 7th century BC and its successor, the red-figure style, developed by the Andokides Painter in about 530 BC.

Conflicts

★ Arcadian Wars

★ Athenian republic wars

★ First Messenian War (Approximately 750-730 bc)

★ First Sacred War (595-585 bc)

★ Lelantine War (End of 8th century bc)

★ Periander's destruction of Epidaurus (approx.600 bc)

★ Second Messenian War (640-620 bc)

★ Spartan invasion of Samos (529 bc)

★ Thirean War (mid 6th century bc)

Important Persons

Statesmen

★ Aristomenes

★ Cleisthenes

★ Cleisthenes of Sicyon

★ Cleomenes I

★ Cypselus

★ Draco (lawgiver)

★ Lycurgus (Sparta)

★ Peisistratos (Athens)

★ Periander

★ Pheidon

★ Polycrates

★ Solon

★ Teleclus

★ Theagenis

★ Theopompus (king of Sparta)

★ Thrasybulus (tyrant)

Epic Poets

★ Homer

★ Hesiod

Philosophers

★ Anaximander

★ Anaximenes of Miletus

★ Heraclitus

★ Pythagoras

★ Thales

★ Xenophanes

Lyric Poets

★ Alcaeus

★ Alcman

★ Anacreon

★ Stesichorus

Logographers

★ Cadmus of Miletus

★ Hecataeus of Miletus

Fabulists

★ Aesop

See also

★ Mykonos vase

External links

★ Archaic period: society, economy, politics, culture — The Foundation of the Hellenic World

★ The Archaic Period of Greek Art – Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

★ Ancient Greece: The Archaic Period — by Richard Hooker