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Archaic Greece

The Archaic period in Greece (800 BC - 480 BC) was a period of ancient Greek history that followed the Greek Dark Ages. This period saw the rise of the polis (city-states) and the founding of colonies, as well as the first inklings of classical philosophy, theatre in the form of tragedies performed during Dionysia, and written poetry, which appeared with the reintroduction of the written language, lost during the Greek Dark Ages.The sharp rise in population at the start of the Archaic period brought with it the settlement of new towns and the expansion of the older population centres. The Archaic period is also characterized by the spread of colonization along the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts that began about 800 B.C. Significant writers and philosphers of this period include: Homer, Hesiod, Pythagorus, Thales and Xenophanes.

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