"There was not simply one ‘orientalizing’ period, there were several."
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Stephanie Dalley, The Legacy of Mesopotamia (Oxford, 1998), p. 86; quoted from Nicholas Kazanas, Vedic and Indo-European Studies (Aditya Prakashan, 2015), Ch. 7: Archaic Greece and the Veda
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