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
6. Mediterranean (Early Western World)
7. Aegean
8. Aegean styles

Anotations

Scope note:

The culture and style of the Aegean island of Samos, a site important in the cult of Hera and especially in the 6th century during the reign of Polykrates, as a cultural and commercial power. Important artistic production included grave stelae, funerary reliefs, monumental kouroi and korai, and in architecture, the Temple of Hera.