The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
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Greek Culture during the Greek Middle Ages
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At Athens c. 1000 BC the art changed from the "decadent" and lax style of the Mycenaeans to a geometric style employing abstract patterns, of which concentric circles became the favourite. The new style spread to the Argolis, to southern Thessaly and to some of the islands. This proto-geometric art then developed into mature Geometric art involving numerous abstract patterns such as cross-hatched triangles and diamonds, squares and oblongs in chequer-board patterns. Around 800 BC animal figures start to appear in the designs, and about 750 BC bands showing human scenes of life and death are depicted. Many show funeral scenes. These vases, which were up to 1.5 metres high, were positioned in the Dipylon cemetery of Athens. However, they were memorials to the dead since the practice of cremation had not yet become fashionable.
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Contents of
The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
1 Population growth and land hunger
2 Economic expansion and the rising "middle class"
3 Cultural developments in Greece during the period of tyrannies
4 Hoplite tactics
5 Factional politics
6 Ethnic tensions
7 The downfall of tyrants in archaic Greece
8 The Dorian and Ionic migrations
9 The Dorians
10 Greek Dark age
11 The Greek City States
12 Greek colonization of the C8th BC
13 Greek colonization of the Aegean and East
14 Greek settlers in the Euxine
15 Causes of the Greek colonization
16 Archaeological evidence for Greek population expansion in C8th BC
17 Foundation of Cyrene
18 Corcyra
19 Olbia
20 The Lelantine war
21 Relations with Egypt
22 Greek Culture during the Greek Middle Ages
23 Introduction of phonetic script
24 Homer
25 Hesiod
26 Foundation of the Olympic Games
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