Earliest Greek Inscription.
(oinochoe, ca. 750 BCE. Athens National Museum)
The first six words are in hexameter meter:
hos nun orkheston panton atalotata paizei to tode… Whoever of all these dancers now plays most delicately, to him this…
Olympic Games Organized, traditionally 776 BCE
Apollo Sanctuary at Delphi Established
Organized Colonization (ktisis)
Proliferation of Alphabet (from Levant)
Hesiodic and Homeric Poetry
Biers 111: “Particularly striking is the presence of objects of foreign origin in places where they had previoiusly appeared only sporadically. The introduction of alphabetic writing, the rebirth of representational art, the rise of sanctuaries and hero cults, the increase in quantity and quality of architectural remains, the beginnings of literature… the growth of trade…”
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