CLA 2100	Lecture Eight: Archaic Greece.
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Assignment: Finley, Ancient Greeks, pp. 30-53.

Archaic Greece

Chronology

• 8th-century BC Spartans conquer Messenia
• 594 BC Archonship of Solon in Athens
• 561 BC Pisistratus first attempts tyranny in Athens
• 527 BC Death of Pisistratus in Athens
• 510 BC Expulsion of tyrants from Athens
• 508 BC Reforms of Cleisthenes in Athens
• 499-4 BC Ionian revolt against Persians in Asia Minor.
• 490-79 BC Persian Wars
• 490 BC Defeat of Persians at Marathon by Athens
• 480 BC Naval Victory of Greeks under Athenian leadership at Salamis
• 479 BC Land Victory of Greeks under Spartan leadership at Plataea

Archaic Trends

• Greek colonization. Its causes, nature, and extent.
• Tyranny as a transitional form of government.
• Greek material culture in the archaic age.
  • Temples (as a reflection of the importance of the gods).
    • Temple of Apollo at Corinth (6th century BC)
    • Temple of Hera at Paestum (6th century BC)
  • Sculpture (especially as an attempt to represent divinity in human form and the transition from archaic modes to classical -- what are some features of that transition?)
  • Pottery (geometric, black figure, red figure, themes)
  • kouros
  • kore (See Peplos Kore also here.)