Archaic Greece

Archaic Greece (800-479 BCE) is the period in Greek history after the Bronze Age collapse and before the Greco–Persian wars. Their art has a more natural and realistic style. Greek art was less geometric and more naturalistic. Paintings on vases had representations of human figures, most of the time with mythical tales.

The Ancient Olympic Games started in the Archaic Period.

Archaic Greece Media

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  The gymnasium and palaestra at Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic games. The archaic period conventionally dates from the first Olympiad.

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  Ruins of the Temple of Apollo within the polis of Ancient Corinth, built c. 540 BC, with the Acrocorinth (the city's acropolis) seen in the background

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  The lawgiver Solon reformed the Athenian constitution, which led to significant developments in Greece

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  Ancient Greek colonies in the archaic period

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  The Temple of Concordia, Valle dei Templi, Magna Graecia, in present-day Italy

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  An ear of barley, symbol of wealth in the city of Metapontum in Magna Graecia (i.e. the Greek colonies of southern Italy), on a stamped stater, minted c. 530–510 BCE

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  The Vix Krater, an imported Greek wine-mixing bronze vessel found in the Hallstatt/La Tène grave of the "Lady of Vix", Burgundy, France, c. 500 BC

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  Attic black-figure vessel with double alphabet inscription, showing new letters ΥΧ[Φ]Ψ, and ΥΧΦΨΩ. Probably early 6th c. BC

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  Homer, author of the earliest surviving Greek literature

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  The remains of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth, the first Greek temple to be built in stone.