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On this principle of division I must postpone the evolution of sculpture, architecture, society, and politics ; ;

for the developments in these areas make sense only if they are connected to the age of revolution itself.

The growing contacts between Aegean and Orient are also a phase which should be linked primarily to the remarkable broadening of Hellenic culture after 750.

We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;

the important point, however, is that these magnificent achievements, unlike those of later decades, were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models.

The antecedents of Dipylon vases and of the Iliad lie in the Aegean past.

Dipylon pottery

the pottery of the first half of the eighth century is commonly called Ripe Geometric.

The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;

but artists now were ready to refine and elaborate their inheritance.

The vases which resulted had different shapes, far more complex decoration, and a larger sense of style.