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The Importance of Networks in the Mediterranean
In the 8th through 6th centuries BC, artistic styles and motifs that drew on imagery common in the Near East became common everywhere from Greece to Etruria. Phoenician traders sold Greek style wine drinking vessels to a Truscan nobleman in Central Italy. The effects of these shifts transformed every society they touched in profound ways. In today's episode, we try to bridge the gap between those various scales in this exciting new Mediterranean.