Athens Path

The archaic period saw a shift in styles of pottery decoration from the repeating patterns of the geometric period, through the eastern-influenced orientalizing style to the more representational black-figure and red-figure techniques. athenspath.com

The kore known as the Dedication of Nikandre is probably the oldest to survive. 180 years after it was made, the genre was at an end, and Greek sculpture was recognisably Classical. athenspath.com

Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, depicting a Gigantomachy, c. 525 BC, Delphi Archaeological Museum athenspath.com

Coinage began to be adopted in Greece in the mid-6th century BC, beginning with Aegina, which minted distinctive “turtle coins” (above), before moving to other cities including Athens (below), whose coins were exported throughout the Greek world. athenspath.com

The Vix Krater, an imported Greek wine-mixing bronze vessel found in the HallstattLa Tène grave of the Lady of Vix, Burgundy, France, c. 500 BC athenspath.com

An ear of barley, symbol of wealth in the city of Metapontum in Magna Graecia (i.e. the Greek colonies of southern Italy), on a stamped stater, minted c. 530–510 BCE athenspath.com

Archaic Greece Demography athenspath.com

Archaic Greece Tyranny athenspath.com

Ruins of the Temple of Heracles, Agrigento, Sicily, within the Valle dei Templi, built in the late 6th century BC during the late archaic period athenspath.com

Areas settled by Greeks by the close of the archaic period athenspath.com