The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

Sirens entered Greek art as a part of the decoration on Orientalizing tripod cauldrons, which were introduced to Greece in the so-called Orientalizing period (mid-8th to mid-7th centuries B.C.E.), ...

When Alexander’s armies conquered cities in the east, they reconfigured their narratives to give their new territories foundational myths, so as to incorporate them into the Greek world ...