Dark Ages

1
Dark Ages Geometric Greecec. 1100 700 BCE

• Architecture
• Dark ages c. 1100 900 BCE
• Geometric Period c. 900 700 BCE
• Appearance of temples and sanctuaries
• Karphi, Crete
• Perachora near Corinth
• Argos
• Samos

2

• Sculpture
• Centaur of Lefkandi (c. 900 BCE)
• Tripod cauldron
• Human warrior figures

3

• Pottery
• Kerameikos cemetary, Athens
• Protogeometric from Mycenaean
• Krater
• Oinochoe
• Faster wheel
• Decoration emphasizes form
• 8th century BCE humans and animals appear!
• Gravemarkers
• Narrative

Geometric krater, Dipylon cemetary, Athens, 4
ft./1.22 m
4
Orientalizing Periodc. 700 - 600 BCE

• Architecture
• Temple of Apollo, Thermon
• Sanctuary of Hera, Samos
• Megara Hyblaia, Sicily
• Smyrna, Asia Minor

5

• Sculpture
• Male warriors
• Tripods with protomes
• Daedalic Style
• Nikandre

Right Mantiklos Bronze from Thebes, 20 cm Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
Lady of Auxerre, Limestone, 65 cm Louvre, Paris
Kneeling Ivory Youth from Samos, 14.5 cm National
Museum, Athens
6
Lion Headed protomes on bronze cauldron
Nikandre from Delos, 1.75 m, National Museum,
Athens
7

• Pottery
• Corinth
• Floral/vegetal/animal motifs
• Dotted rosette
• Black figure style
• Athens
• Analatos Painter
• Eleusis
• Rhodes
• Wild goat style
• Aegina
• Crete
• Mykonos

Protoattic amphora, Analatos amphora, 80 cm,
Louvre, Paris
Protocorinthian olpe, Chigi vase, 26 cm, Villa
Giulia Museum, Rome
8
Griffin jug from Aegina, 39 cm, British Museum,
London
Terracotta relief amphora from Mykonos, 1.35 m,
Archaeological Museum, Mykonos
Protoattic amphora, Eleusis amphora, 1.44 m,
Archaeological Museum, Eleusis
Wild goat style oinochoe from Rhodes, 1.22 m,
National Museum, Athens