Archaic Greece facts for kids

Archaic Greece is the period in Greek history after the Bronze Age collapse and before the Greco–Persian wars.

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  The gymnasium and palaestra at Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic games. The archaic period conventionally dates from the first Olympiad.

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  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

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  The Vix Krater, an imported Greek wine-mixing bronze vessel found in the Hallstatt/La Tène grave of the "Lady of Vix", Burgundy, France, c. 500 BC

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  Attic black-figure vessel with double alphabet inscription, showing new letters ΥΧ[Φ]Ψ, and ΥΧΦΨΩ. Probably early 6th c. BC

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  Homer, author of the earliest surviving Greek literature

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  The remains of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth, the first Greek temple to be built in stone.

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In Spanish: Época arcaica para niños