Introduction to the Ancient World: Greece

Early Greece 

I . Social and political change 

A. timocracy (plutocracy)

B. hoplite phalanx

C. tyranny, e.g. Corinth (655-585 B.C.) 

II. The new individualism in poetry: Sappho, Archilochus, Xenophanes (7th/6th cents. B.C.); please download from Lect. 8 

III. Sculpture (7th and 6th cent.): kouros, kouroi; kore, korai 

IV. Vase Painting 

A. Protogeometric (ca. 1,000-900 B.C.)

B. Geometric (ca. 900-700 B.C.)

C. Orientalizing, Protocorinthian, early Corinthian (ca. 725-600 B.C.); miniature style 

V. The setting of early Greek culture: the polis, arete, paideia, agon  

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