Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
Orientalizing: Five Historical Questions
Debating Orientalization - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Volume 10 - Corinna Riva
Nicholas Purcell [+]
Oxford University
Nicholas Purcell is Camden Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, Oxford University.
Description
This chapter addresses the historical challenges and difficulties that arise when identifying 8th and 7th centuries BC as an "Orientalizing period". Periodization is one of the central ways in which analytical order on the past can be imposed. Debating the term 'Orientalization' concerns the historical construction of the age in question.