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)
Chronology
• 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
• Protocorinthian Aryballos
• British Museum
• 7 cm
• 650 BCE
Athens - Protoattic
• 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
• Wild goat - Rhodes
• Cycladic style
• Boeotian
• Relief amphorae - islands
• Aiginetan
Cycladic Style