| Pottery can be used as a classical support for | | | | In this age the Mycenean civilization collapsed and so |
| understanding the antique Greek culture and civilization. | | | | also the Mycenean pottery. People lost interest in the |
| The graphic illustrations skillfully fashioned on fancy | | | | manufacturing of pottery. However this age also came |
| pottery, reflect the manifold aspects of Greek life. The | | | | to an end and people began manufacturing pots again. |
| Greek empire from Stone Age to Hellenistic era has | | | | The pottery was made with circular drawings on it. |
| undergone quite a lot of changes. These alterations | | | | 5. Greek Pottery in the Archaic Period- |
| can be examined in terms of seven different eras | | | | In the 900 BC which is the archaic period the potters |
| through which the Greek society has passed. We will | | | | of Athens and Cornith regained their passion in pottery. |
| discuss in the following paragraphs how the Greek art | | | | In Cornith the artisans festooned miniature pots where |
| of manufacturing pottery also underwent changes with | | | | the figures of mythical animals had been portrayed. |
| the change in the different historical periods. | | | | The Athenians started painting mythological tales on |
| 1 Greek Pottery In The Stone Age- | | | | their pottery and exclusive tales from Homer's Illiad. |
| In the early Neolithic period Greek pottery was | | | | 6. Greek Pottery in Black Figure- |
| unadorned. In the mid Neolithic period people started | | | | Gradually the clay pots of archaic period took a |
| decorating pottery with red and white geometric | | | | different picture as the focus shifted from shape of |
| patterns. The newly formed and decorated potteries | | | | the pot to more and more scenes on it. A new style |
| were known as Sesklo wares. Then the Dimni people | | | | of painting developed and as a substitute of making |
| of Greece in the late Neolithic period made special | | | | human structures on the sketch, the potters now |
| kinds of pottery which were black or cream in color. | | | | started to make natives in silhouette. The paintings |
| 2. Greek Pottery in the Early Bronze Age- | | | | were solely in black color. |
| During this period the Minyan ware was found and it | | | | 7. Greek Pottery in Red Figure- |
| was brought by the indo European Greeks. It is a well | | | | The Athenian potters in 500 BC, instead of painting the |
| made ware in a potter's wheel and is plain gray in | | | | people black prepared the background of the pot |
| color. It also has wide range of interesting shapes and | | | | black and made images on this black surface with red |
| sizes which was not found in the Stone Age. | | | | color. Though the painting was quite difficult the figures |
| 3. Greek Pottery in the Late Bronze Age- | | | | on the pot looked more realistic than ever. But 40 |
| It was the Mycenean period and the Greeks started | | | | years hence the red figure Greek pottery also |
| making designs on pottery. They made geometric | | | | became extinct. |
| shapes, humans, animals, sea creatures in cream | | | | Greek pottery, as can be seen, went through many |
| colored background. The Greeks in the late Bronze | | | | evolutionary stages giving us a wide variety of pottery |
| Age made designs in black or red. | | | | ware, each unique in its own way. |
| 4. Greek Pottery in the Dark Age- | | | | |