The Archaic period in the Aegean: statues, vessels and sanctuaries

The frame

For the Aegean the site follows the period bars of the Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, as it follows the same museum's regional timeline for the Levant: one published scheme whose names and dates can be checked on the page itself. On the page "Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D." the bar reads "Archaic period, ca. 700-480 B.C.". The page's area is wider than the Aegean: besides Greece it lists Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia, European Turkey and other present-day countries. The period on this site covers mainland Greece and the Aegean islands. Source 1.

Boundaries and overlaps

Both ends are approximate. Before the period the same page has "Geometric period, ca. 900-700 B.C.", after it "Classical period, ca. 480-323 B.C.": the periods meet without overlapping. The list of key events places the Greeks' repelling of two Persian attempts to conquer Greece under the heading "490 B.C., 480/479 B.C.", at the end of the period, but the page does not say that the boundary is defined by these events. Two shorter bars inside the period concern Athens alone: "Age of Tyrants", ca. 650-510 B.C., and "Introduction of democracy", ca. 510-507 B.C. The site does not turn them into sub-periods of the whole Aegean. Source 1.

On this site

The marble statue of a kouros (youth) in the Metropolitan Museum, dated ca. 590-580 BCE, is described in its record as one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica, and the timeline page shows it among its images. The article on red-figure in Athens reads the timeline's entry for about 525 B.C., on a new way of painting vessels. The article on Delphi, whose main placement is in the Geometric period, is listed here as well, and so is the article on the sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus, whose source dates the cult of Asklepios there to the 6th century BCE. Sources 2, 1, 3.