The period of Archaic Greece from c. 600-480 B.C. was marked by continued prosperity, which had began a nearly a century before. With this, an interest in commerce intensified as ri-valries between the city-states did. Commercial enterprise and competition brought these Greek states in contact with other foreign lands in the Mediterranean, like the Etruscans and Carthagin-ians in the West, the Persians in the East, and Egypt in the South. Of these, Egypt, in particular, provided the most cultural influence on Archaic Greek sculpture. We have much evidence about the Greek presence in Egy...
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