Orientalizing period Quotes

“There was not simply one ‘orientalizing’ period, there were several.”

“Wikipedia: Orientalizing period”

“In view of this state of affairs it could not be called out of the way to ask what there was in Archaic Greece which did not come from the orient.”

“Angesichts dieser Sachlage wäre es durchaus nicht als abwegig zu bezeichnen, daß man fragte, was im archaischen Hellas eigentlich nicht aus dem Orient herstammte.”