Editing Classical antiquity (section)

====Greece====
{{Main|Archaic Greece}}

The Archaic period followed the [[Greek Dark Ages]], and saw significant advancements in [[political theory]], and the beginnings of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], [[theatre]], [[poetry]], as well as the revitalization of the written language (which had been lost during the Dark Ages).

In pottery, the Archaic period sees the development of the [[Orientalizing Period|Orientalizing style]], which signals a shift from the [[geometric style]] of the later Dark Ages and the accumulation of influences derived from Egypt, [[Phoenicia]] and [[Syria]].

Pottery styles associated with the later part of the Archaic age are the [[black-figure pottery]], which originated in [[Corinth]] during the 7th-century BC and its successor, the [[Red-figure pottery|red-figure style]], developed by the [[Andokides Painter]] in about 530&nbsp;BC.