ABSTRACT
We return now to the Aegean, to consider another wide area loosely held together by common features in the local pottery. Long after other local schools had broken free of Attic influence, each of these regions continued to borrow ideas from the Athenian style during its LG I phase. To begin with, much of the borrowing must have been at first hand, when Athens was still an outwardlooking city; later, with the sharp decline of Attic exports, the ceramic cohesion of this group depends more and more on the influence of Euboea which travelled westwards to Boeotia, northwards to Thessaly, and south-eastwards through the Cycladic archipelago. The situation becomes much the same as in the early ninth century, another period when Euboea succeeded Attica as the chief source of new ideas within this area. We must grant, however, that the elaboration of LG ornament allows a much greater diversity of local tastes than was possible in the Sub-Protogeometric styles of the previous century.
