Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World

Narrower term/s

• Aegean[+]
  • Aegean periods [+]
    • Ancient Greek (culture or style) [+]
      • Protogeometric
      • Geometric (Greek culture or style) [+]
      • Orientalizing [+]
      • Archaic (Greek culture or period) [+]
      • Classical [+]
      • Hellenistic [+]
      • Academic (ancient Greek)
      • Ancient Macedonian (culture or style)
      • Argive
      • Arian (Greek culture)
      • Boeotian (general)
      • Chalcidian (Ancient Greek culture or period)
      • Spartan
      • Corinthian (culture or style, general)
      • Doric (culture)
      • Achaean
      • Aeolian
      • Ionian (culture or style)
      • Eretrian (Greek regional culture)
      • Euboean (Greek regional culture)
      • Laconian (culture or style)
      • Megarian (culture or style)
      • Peloponnesian
      • Rhodian (culture or style)
      • Sicyonian
      • Attic (culture) [+]
      • Epirot
      • Trojan
    • Aegean Neolithic periods [+]
      • Proto-Sesklo
      • Sesklo
      • Dimini
    • Aegean Bronze Age periods [+]
      • Cycladic [+]
      • Helladic [+]
      • Minoan [+]
  • Aegean styles [+]
    • Aegean pottery styles [+]
      • Greek pottery styles [+]
      • Greek vase painting styles [+]
      • Cycladic pottery styles [+]
      • Helladic pottery styles [+]
      • Minoan pottery styles [+]
    • Aegean architecture styles [+]
      • Aeolic
      • Corinthian (architectural style)
      • Doric (architectural style)
      • Ionic (architecture style)
    • Cretan
    • Naxian
    • Parian (Aegean style)
    • Creto-Mycenaean
    • Aegean sculpture styles [+]
      • Greek sculpture styles [+]
      • Cycladic sculpture styles [+]
    • Melian (Aegean style)
    • Samian (Aegean culture and style)
    • Minyan (culture or style)
    • Thracian
• Egyptian (ancient)[+]
  • Egyptian periods [+]
    • Predynastic [+]
      • Upper Egyptian Predynastic [+]
      • Lower Egyptian Predynastic [+]
    • Early Dynastic (Egyptian) [+]
      • First Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Second Dynasty (Egyptian)
    • Old Kingdom (Egyptian) [+]
      • Third Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Fourth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Fifth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Sixth Dynasty (Egyptian)
    • First Intermediate period (Egyptian) [+]
      • Seventh Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Eighth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Ninth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Tenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Memphite
      • Heracleopolitan period
    • Middle Kingdom (Egyptian) [+]
      • Eleventh Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twelfth Dynasty (Egyptian)
    • Second Intermediate period (Egyptian) [+]
      • Thirteenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Fourteenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Fifteenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Sixteenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Seventeenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Theban
    • New Kingdom (Egyptian) [+]
      • Eighteenth Dynasty (Egyptian) [+]
      • Nineteenth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twentieth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Ramesside period
    • Third Intermediate period (Egyptian) [+]
      • Twenty-first Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-second Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-third Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-fourth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-fifth Dynasty (Egyptian)
    • Late Period (Egyptian) [+]
      • Twenty-sixth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-seventh Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-eighth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Twenty-ninth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Thirtieth Dynasty (Egyptian)
      • Thirty-first Dynasty (Egyptian)
    • Egyptian Paleolithic [+]
      • Sebilian
  • Ptolemaic
  • Coptic (culture or style)
  • Egyptian pottery styles [+]
    • black-mouthed
    • black-topped [+]
      • black-topped red
    • Hadra
    • orange-burnished (pottery style)
    • red-polished (Egyptian pottery style)
    • ripple-burnished
    • white cross-lined
  • Romano-Egyptian
  • Heracleopolitan
  • Greco-Egyptian
• Ancient Italian[+]
  • Greco-Roman
  • Etruscan (culture or style) [+]
    • Tarquinian (Etruscan style)
    • Early Etruscan
    • Late Etruscan
  • Etrusco-Roman
  • Italic (ancient Italian culture or style)
  • Villanovan [+]
    • Benacci
    • Arnoaldi
  • Roman (ancient Italian culture or period) [+]
    • Republican [+]
      • Late Republican
      • Caesarian
      • Sullan
    • Imperial (Roman) [+]
      • Augustan
      • Julio-Claudian
      • Flavian
      • Antonine
      • Severan
      • Tetrarchic [NP]
      • Constantinian [NP]
      • Early Imperial
      • Trajanic
      • Hadrianic
    • Late Antique [+]
      • Tetrarchic
      • Constantinian
    • Monarchic (Roman style or period) [+]
      • Tarquinian (Roman monarchy)
    • Holy Roman Imperial [NP]
  • Italian Bronze Age periods [+]
    • Apennine
    • Ausonian
    • Morgetian
    • Proto-Villanovan
    • Terramare
    • Sub-Apennine
  • ancient Italian architecture styles [+]
    • Composite (architectural style)
    • Tuscan (architectural style)
  • ancient Italian pottery styles [+]
    • Etruscan pottery styles [+]
      • Bucchero (pottery style)
      • Civitavecchia
      • Faliscan (pottery style)
    • Roman pottery styles [+]
      • brittle (Roman pottery style)
      • gray (Roman pottery style)
      • micaceous
      • Pergamene (pottery style)
      • red-gloss (pottery style)
      • Terra sigillata (pottery style) [+]
      • Thorn (Roman pottery style)
  • ancient Italian sculpture styles [+]
    • Roman sculpture styles [+]
      • Neo-Attic
      • Aphrodisian
      • Hard Style
  • ancient Italian wall painting styles [+]
    • Pompeian wall painting styles [+]
      • First Style
      • Second Style
      • Third Style
      • Fourth Style
  • Greco-Etruscan
  • Etrusco-Italic
  • Roman provincial styles [+]
    • Gallo-Roman
    • Romano-British
    • Romano-German
    • Romano-Egyptian [NP]
  • Samnite (culture or style)
  • Sabine
  • Elymian
  • Siculi
  • Sicani
  • Venetian (Republic, culture or style) [+]
    • Venetian Colonial
  • Ligurian (culture or style)
  • Ancient Umbrian (culture or style)
  • Rinaldone (culture or style)
  • Faliscan (culture or style)
  • Venetic (culture or style)
  • Picene (culture or style)
  • Volscan (culture or style)
  • Bruttii
• Illyrian
• Eastern Mediterranean
• Talayotic

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the cultures of the areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, which is bordered by Europe, Asia, and Africa. It particularly refers to the island cultures and those on the mainland of Europe and Asia Minor that border the Mediterranean Sea. It includes cultures that developed in and around the Tyrrhenian, Ionian, Ligurian, Adriatic, and Aegean seas.