Orientalizing Period

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Orientalizing Period

• City-States
• Sparta (Laconia)
• Athens (Attica)
• Thebes (Boeotia)
• Corinth (Corinthiad)
• Megara (Megarid)
• Aegina - Island

• Colonies
• Gela (Sicily)
• Poseidonia (S. Italy)
• Cyrene (Libya)
• Naukratis (Egypt)
• Syracuse (Sicily)

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Chronology

• Protocorinthian 725 - 625 BCE
• Corinthian 625 - 550 BCE
• Based on Corinthian Pottery
• Thucydides (VI.3 - 5)
• Megara Hyblaia 728 BCE
• Syracuse 733 BCE

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Corinthian Pottery

• Shapes
• Aryballos
• Kotyle
• Olpe
• Orientalizing Animals
• Rosettes
• Black-figure Style

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Chigi Vase

• Protocorinthian Olpe
• Villa Giulia Mus
• 26 cm
• 650 BCE

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Macmillan Vase

• Protocorinthian Aryballos
• British Museum
• 7 cm
• 650 BCE

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Athens - Protoattic

• Real Myth
• Less Hybrid Animals
• True Black Figure, only late 625 - 600 BCE
• Shapes
• Amphora
• Krater
• Large vessels

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Analatos Painter

• Sphinxes
• Male and Female dancers
• Fillers
• Some Geometric stylistic holdovers
• 700 - 675 BCE

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Other styles of Pottery

• Wild goat - Rhodes
• Cycladic style
• Boeotian
• Relief amphorae - islands
• Aiginetan

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Cycladic Style