AHIS 120gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peplos Kore, Archaic Greece, Archaic Smile
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Farming was hard in the rocky soil, they also made pottery and metalwork. They were valiant soldiers and colonized areas as far as southern italy. Geometric period attributed to the hirschfeld works funerary krater: the greeks no longer believed the dead (cid:449)ill (cid:374)eed ite(cid:373)s i(cid:374) the (cid:374)e(cid:454)t life, that"s (cid:449)h(cid:455) the(cid:455) (cid:449)ere (cid:271)uried outside. The scenes are arranged symmetrically on the pot. In the detail the figures are black silhouettes reduced to very simple geometric shaped. Heads are reduced to ovals and one eye. The silhouetted bodies take a shape of figure 8 because this is what shields used to look like. The chariot is pulling the body above, and the body is about to be cremated. After the burial they had games which resembled the same games that they played in the olympics, such as boxing, foot raing, two horse racing and so on. The cities during this period were controlled by tyrants.
