Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC,[1] following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea: by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network that spanned the entire Mediterranean.
The archaic period began with a massive increase in the Greek population[2] and of significant changes that rendered the Greek world at the end of the 8th century entirely unrecognizable from its beginning.[3] According to Anthony Snodgrass, the archaic period was bounded by two revolutions in the Greek world. It began with a "structural revolution" that "drew the political map of the Greek world" and established the poleis, the distinctively Greek city-states, and it ended with the intellectual revolution of the Classical period.[4]
The archaic period saw developments in Greek politics, economics, international relations, warfare and culture. It laid the groundwork for the Classical period, both politically and culturally. It was in the archaic period that the Greek alphabet developed, the earliest surviving Greek literature was composed, monumental sculpture and red-figure pottery began in Greece and the hoplite became the core of Greek armies.
In Athens, the earliest institutions of democracy were implemented under Solon, and the reforms of Cleisthenes at the end of the archaic period brought in Athenian democracy as it was during the Classical period. In Sparta, many of the institutions credited to the reforms of Lycurgus were introduced during the archaic period, the region of Messenia was brought under Spartan control, helotage was introduced and the Peloponnesian League was founded and made Sparta a dominant power in Greece.
ArchaicGreece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages...
Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they...
ArchaicGreek Sculpture represents the first stages of the formation of a sculptural tradition that became one of the most significant in the entire history...
The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic...
Darkness and ArchaicGreek Cosmography". In Christopoulos, Menelaos; Karakantza, Efimia D.; Levaniouk, Olga (eds.). Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and...
in his teens. It was characteristic of the Archaic and Classical periods. The influence of pederasty on Greek culture of these periods was so prevalent...
Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and the colonization of...
The archaic smile was used by sculptors in ArchaicGreece, especially in the second quarter of the 6th century BCE, possibly to suggest that their subject...
and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323) and Hellenistic. At all periods there were great numbers of Greek terracotta figurines...
Greece during the preceding 200 years, traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages. The 7th century BC witnessed the slow development of the Archaic style...
by the Greek Dark Ages, a recordless transitional period leading to ArchaicGreece where significant shifts occurred from palace-centralized to decentralized...
Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of ArchaicGreeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black...
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distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the...
be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC Archaic period, 800–490 BC Classical period, 490–323...
and Pedagogy in ArchaicGreece. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-252-06740-2. Dowden, Ken. 1992. "Myth and Mythology" in The Uses of Greek Mythology. London:...
developed by the Andokides Painter in about 530 BC. Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of ArchaicGreeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC...
Greece in the Roman era describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the...
000BC. the Archaic period (North America) (8000 BC–1000 BC) Archaic period in Mesoamerica ArchaicGreece (800 BC–480 BC) Archaic period in Greek art a period...
Mycenaean Greece and the chaotic and creative Archaic age of Hellenic civilisation." Dark Ages in history Knodell 2021, p. 7 Table 1. "The History of Greece"....
divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (c. 1400–1200 BC), Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC), the Archaic or Epic period (c. 800–500 BC), and the Classical...
the Archaic Temple of Poseidon at Isthmia, Greece". Journal of Field Archaeology. 8 (2): 211–212. Wikander, Örjan (January–March 1990). "Archaic Roof...
Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation...
prostitute or slave, who would nearly always be non-Roman. In Archaic and classical Greece, paiderasteia had been a formal social relationship between freeborn...
adopted from the Phoenician letter He () when Greeks first adopted alphabetic writing. In archaicGreek writing, its shape is often still identical to...
increasing decoration. Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous with the late Dark Age and early ArchaicGreece, which saw the rise of the Orientalizing...
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