The Geometric Period And The Rise Of The Polis, 900-700 Flashcards
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Timeline of the geometric period
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Early geometric 900-850
Middle geometric 850-750
Late geometric 750-700
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Where did the first instances of colonisation happen and when?
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Southern Italy and Sicily, 8th century. In the 7th century, Costal Macedonia, Thrace and also the Black Sea were colonised.
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Key early geometric artefacts (3)
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- lefkandi toumba seal
- lefkandi centaur
- lefkandi tripod clay moulds
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Key middle geometric artefacts (3)
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- north Syrian bronze kerameikos bowl
- Phoenician alphabet on pot tripods, Ithaca
- Kerameikos golden funerary diadem
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Key late geometric artefacts (5)
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Dipylon Krater Dipylon amphora - female mourners tearing hair Odysseus’ shipwreck oinoche Lyre player ivory seal, 750 Nestor’s cup, 725
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Key places for the geometric period
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-knossos cemeteries, 900
-princess grave in Agora, 900
Emborio:Chios - small town with houses scattered over the hillside
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Early temples
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- Eretria, 750 1 small and 1 large apsidal temple, 650 1 rectangular building
- Heraion at Samos, earliest Greek temple, 8th century
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Why is Old Smyrna
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Andros, abandoned at the end of the 7th century, good fortification wall and the house plans survive
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Academic sources
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Boardman
- sculpture had basic shapes
- 8th century Athenian and Euboea sculpture had more detail
- Greeks were quite reliant upon the Cypriots for resources
