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The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.

Not all men of the period would have accepted this emphasis.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.