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Politics and religion The arts
c.700–c.650 Oriental influence
manifest in Greek
pottery
metalwork
and
c.650 Archilochus,
Semonides, Tyrtaeus
active
c.650–c.600 Age of tyrants and
lawgivers Laws of
Draco at Athens 621
630–600 Alcman active
c.610–c.600 Earliest black-figure
vase
Athens
painting at
c.600 First monumental
kouroi Sappho,
594/3 Archonship of Solon c.600–c.550
Alcaeus active
Earliest Doric
at Athens
temples (Olympia,
Corinth, Syracuse,
c.560
Corcyra, Selinus)
Earliest Ionic temples
(Samos, Ephesus)
c.550 Theognis active
Mythological
cosmogony of
Pherecydes of Syros
Amasis Painter and
Exekias
Athens
active at
c.550–c.500 Earliest
poems written
Orphic
546 Persian conquest of
Lydia
c.540–c.522 Tyranny of 540–520 Anacreon active
Polycrates at Samos
Temple of Hera at
Samos
535 Traditional date of
first dramatic
competition at Athens
520–10 Invention of redfigure
technique of