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The Orientalizing Phenomenon in the Ancient Mediterranean
TLDR The Orientalizing phenomenon in the ancient Mediterranean was a result of human interactions and encounters between individuals and groups, with the Phoenicians playing a significant role in spreading artistic motifs, technologies, rituals, and architectural styles throughout the region. The increasing intensity and scale of Trans-Mediterranean contacts shaped the societies living around the Mediterranean, particularly in Greece, leading to the development of their own version of the orientalizing package that they exported across the Mediterranean.
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A woman named Koisiera is waiting for her son to arrive home after being away for three years, and she is surprised to see him with a young woman who he seems serious about marrying.
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The first section of this new season on the Iron Age has focused on the creation of a new and far more integrated world in the centuries following 1000 BC, with the entirety of the Mediterranean being tied together by networks that spanned the whole sea, reaching far beyond the sea towards the Assyrian Empire in the east, the Black Sea in the Balkans, the Alps in Central Europe, the Atlantic, and the Sahara, resulting in the transformation of every society they touched and making the Mediterranean the beating heart of a world that would soon be seen as classical.
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The Orientalizing phenomenon in the ancient Mediterranean was not a straightforward matter of imposition or adoption, but rather a result of actual human interactions and encounters between individuals and groups, with the Phoenicians playing a significant role in spreading artistic motifs, technologies, rituals, and architectural styles throughout the region, while different local groups made their own choices on how to interact with and adapt these new influences.
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The increasing intensity, density, and scale of Trans-Mediterranean contacts affected the different societies living around the fringe of the sea, with the Greeks being the group that had the earliest, most intense, and transformative interactions with the Phoenicians, leading to the development of their own version of the orientalizing package that they exported across the Mediterranean.
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The increasing intensity and scale of Trans-Mediterranean contacts shaped the societies living around the Mediterranean, and although we lack detailed biographical information, we can use our imagination to connect the dots between artifacts, processes, and individuals to understand the human interactions that drove the shifts in the material and historical record, particularly in Greece where the population doubled, agriculture intensified, craft sectors grew, cities developed, and political institutions formed, all influenced by deep interactions with the eastern Mediterranean and the Phoenicians.
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Cuesira, a potter from Eretria, Greece, and her family were involved in the production and export of geometric pottery, including plates that resembled expensive silver dishes, to markets in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Coisera and her family transitioned from producing and exporting plates to focusing on drinking vessels, such as cups and pitchers, for merchants and shipowners in the central and western Mediterranean, leading to their prosperity and Coisera's eventual marriage and move to the settlement of Pithecusi.
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Coesida and her husband prospered in Pythagusei, with Coesida making pottery tailored to the preferences of the locals and her husband trading metals and ceramics along the Italian coast, leading to their family's growth and integration into both Greek and Phoenician cultures.
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The growing and widespread family network, spanning across various regions of the Mediterranean, transmitted the orientalizing motifs and taste through their relationships and connections.
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The orientalizing style of art in the Mediterranean was appealing not just for its appearance, but because it embodied an awareness of new traditions of myth and belief, which were transmitted through social networks and interactions between people.
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