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