The Orientalizing Revolution – Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age: No. 5 (Revealing Antiquity)

As a Greek student in school / University I never had the chance to be informed as to the wealth, differentiation and the immensity of opinions, that historiography reserved for the Ancient Greek studies. It seems whatever we take for granted as a solid, one dimensional past, is a product of forgotten ideological battles and uncountable modifications / alterations. Therefore it is not a surprise that the origins of the Greek indigenous populations and of the Greek civilization are currently placed by the Greek historiography even further in an unknown past, and consequently the idea of a “pure” ancient Greek civilization which owns nothing to its neighbors, gains popularity once more.