Orientalizing Period

2. 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) Orientalizing Period

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

4. Corinthian Pottery • Shapes • Aryballos • Kotyle • Olpe • Orientalizing Animals • Rosettes • Black-figure Style

5. Chigi Vase • Protocorinthian Olpe • Villa Giulia Mus • 26 cm • 650 BCE

6. Macmillan Vase • Protocorinthian Aryballos • British Museum • 7 cm • 650 BCE

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

8. Analatos Painter • Sphinxes • Male and Female dancers • Fillers • Some Geometric stylistic holdovers • 700 - 675 BCE

9. Other styles of Pottery • Wild goat - Rhodes • Cycladic style • Boeotian • Relief amphorae - islands • Aiginetan

10. Cycladic Style