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Art and ceramics were a very large part of the ancient Greek society. Pottery was used for trade, to immortalize figures of power, and for functional purposes such as food and drink storage. Pottery provides evidence for archeologist on the movements of the Gree ....

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.... pottery. Around 530 BC there was a birth of a new type of pottery called Attic Red Figure. Attic Black Figure was virtually replaced by the new comer around 480 BC. The key to Athens’s success was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces. The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery. “O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost ....