Late Geometric Period: 800-700 B.C.E. Architectural materials of the 700s B.C.E. tended to be of mudbrick, thatch, and wood, but some temple foundations of reasonable size have been unearthed, including one to Hera on Samos that measured one hundred feet in length. A restored clay model from the same period found at another sanctuary to Hera near Corinth gives an indication of eighth-century architecture. It could represent the temple itself or the house of the person who made the offering. More enduring innovations in architecture followed in the next century, inspired to some extent by contacts with Egypt. Indeed, by the early 600s B.C.E. the visual arts in Greece were reponding to the arts of the Near East in ways that both developed and departed from the achievements and style of much Geometric Period art.

Early Archaic Period: 700-...