Athens figures large in this account of the Archaic, but it was a period in which virtually every major city in Greece had its
own studios for most media. Regional styles are most readily distinguished on vases, but in sculpture too east Greece had its
own way both in patterning the korai and in giving kouroi a fuller, fleshier physique, or even dressing them. Colonial
Greece played its part too. The West had no white marble but developed skills in terracotta statuary or made do with
limestone. Styles could travel with their artists. Persian pressure on east Greece in the mid-sixth century led to a diaspora of
artists which brought Ionian styles to Attica, and to Etruria where they determined the course of late Archaic Etruscan art.
Heracles Wrestles With The Libyan Giant Antaeus, on a vase by the Athenian red-figure Pioneer Euphronios about 510 B.
C. A fine display of precise anatomical detail. The kempt Greek hero with his curls rendered in low relief, is contrasted with
the wild hair, beard and appearance of the giant, which closely resembles some representations of Libyans in Egyptian art.
Notice the giant's grimace of pain and limp hand.