Sentence examples for archaic period from inspiring English sources

The outstanding art of the Archaic period (750-480 B.C). was figurative stone sculpture.

(In its turn the Etruscan alphabet was diffused at the end of the Archaic period [c.

In the Archaic period, the artist studied the visual pattern of the naked male body.

Up to about 500 bce is described as the Archaic period.

In the Archaic period, Orchomenus was a member of the Calaurian League, but political supremacy in Boeotia passed to Thebes.

Sphinxes decorated vases, ivories, and metal works and in the late Archaic period occurred as ornaments on temples.

If the earlier Archaic period was an age of hospitality, the later Archaic age was an age of patronage.

At some point quite early in the Archaic period that institution developed into something still more definite, the proxenia.

In the late Archaic period, however, Greek traditions began to envision a greater divergence of paths in the afterlife.

Herodotus described one such trader from the later Archaic period, Sostratus of Aegina, a man of fabulous wealth.

Cleisthenes belonged to the Alcmaeonid family, which had played a leading part in Athenian public life since the early Archaic period, and was the son of Megacles.