Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

Both in archaic Greece and in medieval Scandinavia, an accused person walked free if he could get a sufficient number of male relatives to swear him unguilty.

Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.

Prior to the introduction of contrapposto, the statues that dominated ancient Greece were the archaic kouros ( male ) and the kore ( female ).

Over the 4th century Macedon became more politically involved with the south-central city-states of Ancient Greece, but it also retained more archaic features like the palace-culture, first at Aegae ( modern Vergina ) then at Pella, resembling Mycenaean culture more than classic Hellenic city-states, and other archaic customs, like Philip's multiple wives in addition to his Epirote queen Olympias, mother of Alexander.

Several centuries later Ionia was the place where western philosophy began and was the homeland of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. They were natural-philosophers of the Ionian school of philosophy and tried to explain the phenomena according to no-supernatural laws. They also searched a simple material-form behind the appearances of things ( origin ) and this conception had a great influence on the early archaic art in Greece.

* The archaic period of sculpture ends in Greece and is succeeded by the Severe ( Early Classical ) period ( approximate date ).

The Archaic Greece | archaic Gorgon at the pediment of the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Temple of Artemis in Corfu as shown at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

On the mainland of Greece, the spring called Adrasteia was at the site of the Temple of Nemean Zeus, a late Classic temple of c 330 BC, but built on an archaic platform in a very ancient sanctuary near the cave of the Nemean Lion.

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

The pursuit of a local nymph by an Olympian god, part of the archaic adjustment of religious cult in Greece, was given an arch anecdotal turn in Ovid's Metamorphoses, where the god's infatuation was caused by an arrow from Eros, who wanted to make Apollo pay for making fun of his archery skills and to demonstrate the power of love's arrow.

Peak sanctuaries, a feature of Minoan civilization on Crete, are also identified in some archaic sites in mainland Greece.

A hint of matrilineal descent in archaic times among the Boeotian Minyans of Greece, is in Apollonius ' aside concerning Jason's heritage:

The traditional view of archaeologists, that the appearance of urbanization at excavation sites could be read as a sufficient index for the development of a polis was criticised by François Polignac in 1984 and has not been taken for granted in recent decades: the polis of Sparta for example was established in a network of villages. The term polis which in archaic Greece meant city, changed with the development of the governance center in the city to indicate state ( which included its surrounding villages ), and finally with the emergence of a citizenship notion between the land owners it came to describe the entire body of citizens.

Some of these verses inspired ancient commentators to value him as a moralist yet the entire corpus is valued today for its " warts and all " portrayal of aristocratic life in archaic Greece.

Modern scholars in general opt for a birthplace in mainland Greek Megara though a suitable context for the poems could be found just about anywhere in archaic Greece and there are options for mix-and-match, such as a birth in mainland Megara and then migration to Sicilian Megara ( lines 1197 – 1201 mention dispossession / exile and lines 783 – 88 journeys to Sicily, Euboea and Sparta ).

Adrienne Mayor, in The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek and Roman Times, has suggested that deinothere fossils found in Greece helped generate myths of archaic giant beings.

Some of the earliest known examples were found in the treasuries of Delphi, dating to about the 6th century BC, but their use as supports in the form of women can be traced back even earlier, to ritual basins, ivory mirror handles from Phoenicia, and draped figures from archaic Greece.

The earliest finds of roof tiles in archaic Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth ( Greece ), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700-650 BC.

The dish has been native to the Near East and ancient Greece since antiquity ; an early variant of kebab ( Ancient Greek: ὀβελίσκος-obeliskos ) is attested in Greece since 8th century BCE ( archaic period ) in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and in classical Greece, amongst others in the works of Aristophanes, Xenophon and Aristotle.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The archaic ( Homeric ) pronunciation of the name was approximately.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (; ) or Aegeas (; ), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.

In one archaic usage, " common law " is used to refer to certain customs in England dating to before the Norman conquest and before there was any consistent law to be applied.

While this was occurring, modern birds were undergoing diversification and replacing archaic birds and pterosaur groups, possibly due to direct competition, or they simply filled empty niches.

Digamma / wau was part of the original archaic Greek alphabet as initially adopted from Phoenician.

The image was called Daedale and the archaic ritual given an explanation through a myth to the purpose

The archaic term Velja noć ( velmi: Old Slavic for " great "; noć: " night ") was used in Croatian while the term Velikden (" Great Day ") was used in Serbian.

In 1995, one of the oldest hominids, representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found in Buya, Eritrea by Italian scientists dated to over 1 million years old ( the oldest of its kind ), providing a link between hominids and the earliest humans.

Writing was from right to left except in archaic inscriptions, which occasionally used boustrophedon.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

His plays and those of Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate a difference in outlook between the three mena generation gap probably due to the Sophistical enlightenment in the middle decades of the fifth century: Aeschylus still looked back to the archaic period, Sophocles was in transition between periods, and Euripides was fully imbued with the new spirit of the classical age.

The archaic form Alpdruck means " elf pressure "; it was believed that nightmares are a result of an elf sitting on the dreamer's chest ( incubi ).

In the contest of wills between Hera and Zeus over whose candidate would be hero, fated to defeat the remaining creatures representing an old order and bring about the reign of the Twelve Olympians, Eurystheus was Hera's candidate and Heracles — though his name implies that at one archaic stage of myth-making he had carried " Hera's fame " — was the candidate of Zeus.

E-Prime does not allow the conjugations of to be — be, am, is, are, was, were, been, being — the archaic forms of to be ( e. g. art, wast, wert ), or the contractions of to be —' s ,'m ,'re ( e. g. I'm, he's, she's, they're ).

It is considered archaic now, as the terms " acidic " and " basic rock " were based on an incorrect idea, dating from the 19th century, that silicic acid was the chief form of silicon occurring in rocks.

Mohammedan ( also spelled Muhammadan, Mahommedan, Mahomedan or Mahometan ) is an archaic Western term for a follower of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .< ref > JOHN BOWKER.

He may be regarded as an extension of the central figure in archaic cultural life who appeared before us successively as the prophet, medicine-man, seer, thaumaturge and poet and whose best designation is vates .”