WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Trade. Greece’s main exports were olive oil, wine, pottery, and metalwork. Imports included grains and pork from Sicily, Arabia, Egypt, Ancient Carthage, and the Bosporan Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Panathenaic amphorae represent some of the most accomplished examples of Greek vase paintings. The greatest painters of their day were commissioned to create these vases for the state in large numbers. The black-figure technique was always used right through to the end of the 4th century BC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Made of terracotta (fired clay), ancient Greek pots and cups, or “vases” as they are normally called, were fashioned into a variety of shapes and sizes (see above), and very often a vessel’s form correlates with its intended function.

Detailed explanation-4: -Greek pottery was manufactured in a variety of different shapes and sizes according to the use to which a particular vessel would be put. For specific treatments of the major physical types of Greek pottery, see alabastron; amphora; hydria; kantharos; krater; kylix; lekythos; oinochoe; and psykter.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trading stations played an important role as the furthest outposts of Greek culture. Here, Greek goods, such as pottery (2009.529), bronzes, silver and gold vessels, olive oil, wine, and textiles, were exchanged for luxury items and exotic raw materials that were in turn worked by Greek craftsmen.