The earliest plastic arts works in Homer's era are geometric pottery bottles with simple shapes and different sizes, which are mostly used for sacrifice and burial. Even sculpture works are mostly geometric figures without detailed description. Therefore, this period is also called "geometric style period".
Compared with Mycenae civilization, Homer did regress in social system, but made important progress in social and economic development. From the end of 2000 BC to the beginning of 1000 BC, Greece changed from the bronze age to the iron age.
Homer's epic once mentioned iron. Archaeological findings show that there are iron swords belonging to 1 1 century BC, and iron axes, hoes, iron spears, iron knives and iron horse titles belonging to1century BC.
Literature and art:
Homer, a blind man who lived in the 9th-8th century BC, compiled Greek folk myths and legends from the 2nd century BC to the 8th century BC into two works: Heriat and Odyssey.
At this time, the people of the Greek Peninsula inherited and developed the customs accumulated by primitive people and their imagination of the world, and their culture was far less mature than the Aegean culture on the island, which was deeply influenced by ancient Egypt and the two river basins.
Homer, a blind poet, sorted out two immortal literary works from folklore, ballads and myths about the origin of heaven and earth, historical future and yearning for life that have been widely circulated for hundreds or even thousands of years. That is to say, these two works laid the development direction of Greek art later and became inexhaustible materials and sources of Greek art.