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The Orientalizing Mediterranean

Tides of History

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The Networks of the Mediterranean

In 680 BC, Quaseta and her husband moved from Eretria to Pithakusai. Their children spread out across the Mediterranean in a kin network that extended far beyond Iberia. The orientalizing style of art was transmitted through precisely the kinds of networks we've been imagining here. But it's less compelling than what went along with it: myths and legends.

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