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Orientalizing Period
• City-States
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Sparta (Laconia)
Athens (Attica)
Thebes (Boeotia)
Corinth (Corinthiad)
Megara (Megarid)
Aegina - Island
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Gela (Sicily)
Poseidonia (S. Italy)
Cyrene (Libya)
Naukratis (Egypt)
Syracuse (Sicily)
Chronology
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Protocorinthian 725 - 625 BCE
Corinthian 625 - 550 BCE
Based on Corinthian Pottery
Thucydides (VI.3 - 5)
– Megara Hyblaia 728 BCE
– Syracuse 733 BCE
Corinthian Pottery
• Shapes
– Aryballos
– Kotyle
– Olpe
• Orientalizing Animals
• Rosettes
• Black-figure Style
Chigi Vase
• Protocorinthian
Olpe
• Villa Giulia Mus
• 26 cm
• 650 BCE
Macmillan Vase
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Protocorinthian Aryballos
British Museum
7 cm
650 BCE
Athens - Protoattic
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Real Myth
Less Hybrid Animals
True Black Figure, only late 625 - 600 BCE
Shapes
– Amphora
– Krater
– Large vessels
Analatos Painter
• Sphinxes
• Male and Female
dancers
• Fillers
• Some Geometric
stylistic holdovers
• 700 - 675 BCE
Other styles of Pottery
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Wild goat - Rhodes
Cycladic style
Boeotian
Relief amphorae - islands
Aiginetan
Cycladic Style