Greek Art Geometric Style and Orientalizing Style

Three sources of knowledge of Ancient Greece

The works themselves (not much left in existence), Roman copies of Greek originals (especially sculptures), and literature

Greek gods and goddesses-brothers and sisters

Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon

Children of Hera and Zeus

Ares (god of war), Hebe (goddess of youth), Hephaistos (god of metallurgy),

Children of Zeus (not with Hera)

Athena (goddess of crafts, war, wisdom, and Athens), Aphrodite (goddess of love), Apollo (god of music and poetry), Artemis (goddess of the hunt), Dionysus (god of altered states and fertility), Hermes (god of the under world). 

Cosmos and Chaos

order and disorder

Geometric Style

2000 BCE

Groups that used geometric style

Dorians (Peloponnese), Ionians (Attica, Euboea, the Cyclades, central coast of Asia Minor), and Aeolians (northeast Aegean)

Amphora

A tall ancient greek or roman vase with two handles and a narrow neck

Dipylon Vase

Grave monument vase from Dipylon gate in northwestern Athens. Funeral marker.

Meander Pattern

A decorative motif of intricate, rectilinear character applied to architecture and sculpture. Also known as a maze or Greek key pattern

Prothesi

Athens funerary ritual where the dead person lay in state and public mourning took place

Homer Wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad

8th Century BCE

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

Rome Founded

753

Dipylon Vase

750 BCE

Orientalizing Style

 725-650 BCE New Style of pottery/sculpture emerged, influenced by the near east and Egypt, i.e. hybrid creatures such as griffins and sphinxes.

Miniature Vessels

A specialisation of the city of Corinth 

Aryballos

A perfume jar, generally small in size, and often minutely decorated. This was a favorite type of vessel for Corinthian vase-painters.

Guilloche Painting

A repeating pattern made up of two ribbons spiraling around a series of central points. A guilloche pattern is often used as a decorative device in Classical vase-painting.

Bronze tripod

Large vessels, mounted on three legs, dedicated to Greek gods 

Protomes

A decorative, protruding attachment, often on a vessel. Greek bronze-workers attached griffin-shaped protomes to tripod cauldrons in the 7th century BCE.

Corinthian aryballos

680 BCE

Black figure vase painting technique

Mid 7th Century BCE

Greeks establish trading posts in Egypt

650 BCE

Draco codefies Athenian laws

620 BCE