The Orientalizing Mediterranean

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the most recognizable of which was a particular style of art that we call "Orientalizing." But this distinctive and widespread artistic style, rooted in the imagery of the ancient Near East, was only a byproduct of the movements of actual people through an interconnected sea.

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0:05.6	The woman's tanned, lined face split into a smile as the ship finally reached the dock.
0:23.2	Her name was Coiciera, and she had been waiting here for much of the day.
0:27.4	She recognized the ship's swollen midsection, laden with large clay and four-eye full of
0:31.7	wine and oil.
0:33.2	The faces of the men hauling on ropes and waiting on deck were as familiar to her as her own.
0:38.4	She had known most of them for years, if not decades, the experienced crew of this merchant
0:42.5	vessel that had dropped anchor many times in this fine harbor in the Bay of Naples.
0:48.1	But she hadn't yet seen the face she was looking for, and her smile turned to a frown
0:52.0	before she finally caught sight of it.
0:54.2	She looked so different, she thought, with that unruly beard in his dark hair, the same
0:58.1	color as hers, growing down to shoulders that suddenly seemed much broader than the skinny
1:02.3	child who had left here three years before.
1:06.0	What ideas about grooming had he picked up on his journeys around the Mediterranean?
1:10.3	He was in need of barbering.
1:12.2	Coiciera would give the boy, but not a boy any longer, she thought, a haircut as soon
1:16.5	as they got back home.
1:18.8	Her son wasn't alone, she realized.
1:21.1	There was a young woman with him dressed in a way that she had heard was fashionable in
1:24.6	Carthage.
1:26.1	From the way he smiled at her, Coiciera knew that this must be serious.
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