AEGEAN CIVILIZATION

ējēˈən, term for the Bronze Age cultures of pre-Hellenic Greece. The complexity of those early civilizations was not suspected before the excavations of archaeologists in the late 19th cent. The most remarkable of the cultures was perhaps that of Crete, which was flourishing by the beginning of the 3d millennium b.c.; this was the Minoan civilization. On the mainland of Greece excavations have uncovered the remains of Mycenaean civilization. The exploration of the ruins of Troy provided knowledge of another culture, and ruins in the Cyclades have demonstrated remarkable early development there. The exact relationships of these different centers are not yet known, and there are many subjects of conjecture, such as the role of the Achaeans and the causes of the decline of Crete before 1100 b.c.

See V. R. d'Arba Desborough, The Greek Dark Ages (1972); C. Renfrew, The Emergence of Civilisation (1972).

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The Franks in the Aegean, 1204-1500
Book by Peter Lock; Longman, 1995
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453, Civilization, Aegean--Foreign Influences, Crusades--Later, 13th, 14th, And 15th Centuries, Franks--Aegean Sea Region--History
...Region--History. 2. Byzantine Empire- -History--1081-1453. 3. Crusades--Later, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. 4. Civilization, Aegean--Foreign influences. I. Title. DF609.L63 1995 949.502--dc20 94-39822 CIP Set by 7.00 in 10/12 Sabon Produced...
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The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age
Book by H. R. Hall; Methuen, 1928
Subjects: Bronze Age--Greece, Greece--Antiquities, Greece--Civilization
...Encycl. Brit. 11 th ed. , Aegean Civilization , Fig. 5 120...have avoided using the term Aegean Civilization, though it is commonly used...these lectures simply " The Aegean Civilization of Greece ." I might have...
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Ancient Civilization and Trade
Book by Jeremy A. Sabloff, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky; University of New Mexico Press, 1975
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient, Commerce--History--To 500
...significance for early Aegean civilization of Mediterranean...described, and that the Aegean civilization must be explained...of trade in early civilization has so far focused...Mesoamerica, and the Aegean--and the present...
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The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenean Age
Book by H. R. Hall; D. Nutt, 1901
Subjects: Civilization, Mycenaean
...apparent between the civilization of Troy and that...the whole of the AEgean basin, it would...self-contained culture: the AEgean was the natural meeting-place of the civilizations of Europe and...culture in the AEgean comes the first...development of Greek civilization, in the island...
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Greek Civilization
Book by André Bonnard, A. Lytton Sells; Allen and Unwin, 1957
Subjects: Greece--Civilization
...the two shores of the Aegean and, in the way of civilization, Asiatic Greece was...was the centre of their civilization. This Aegean people knew the art of...been scarcely touched by Aegean civilization and were little more...
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Putting Eastern Europe Back into Western Civilization: Or, Why Is the Russian Stuff Always at the End?
Journal article by John K. Cox; Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. 27, 2002
Subjects: Civilization, Western--Study and teaching, Eastern Europe--Study and teaching, History--Study and teaching
...Hellenistic? And what country is Macedonia really in, when cartographers tell us there are three Macedonias: Vardar, Pirin, and Aegean? What religion do the Romany (Gypsies) adhere to? How do we find maps with regions such as Bukovina, Dobrudja, Epirus, Teschen...
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Freud's Prehistoric Matrix-owing 'nature' a Death
Journal article by Joan Raphael-Leff; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 88, 2007
Subjects: Egyptian civilization, Matrix
...prehistoric Egyptian and Aegean civilizations and their intricate...efflorescence-The Aegean From his teens...Minoan-Mycenaean civilization (in Troy and later...unknown prehistoric Aegean civilization, a great vista opened...
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Inspecting the Tragedy of Empire: Shelley's 'Hellas' and Aeschylus' 'Persians
Journal article by Michael Erkelenz; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: Aeschylus--Influence, Civilization, Greek--Influence, Imperialism in literature--Analysis, Shelley, Percy Bysshe--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...thirst excited in them by the progress of civilization, satiated from fountains of literature...Where the rocks that gird th Aegean Echo to the battle paean Of the...Greece not only its independence but the civilization of its glorious past. In the remarkable...
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Late Medieval Crete and Venice: an Appropriation of Byzantine Heritage
Journal article by Maria Georgopoulou; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995
Subjects: Anthropology, Art history, Byzantine civilization, Culture, Middle Ages, Venice Italy
...1211-1669), in (Foreign text omitted) (Crete: History and Civilization), ed. N. Panagiotakes, Herakleion, 1988, II, 107-61; eadem...gave the islands of Corfu in the Ionian Sea and Naxos in the Aegean as hereditary fiefs to Venetian nobles, or were content to...
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New Techniques of Archaeology and Greek Shipwrecks of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries Bc1
Journal article by George F. Bass; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 150, 2006
Subjects: Archaeology, Bronze Age, Diving, Greek civilization, Oil fields, Sailing ships, Wireless communications
...the company complied. The result, funded by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, and named Carolyn after the wife of Malcolm Wiener...perfect launching and retrieval platform for coastal waters in the Aegean, where there are many coves in which to seek shelter in case...
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The West's First Stand: Marathon: At the Dawn of What Was to Become Western Civilization, the Athenians Won an Amazing Victory over the Persians at Marathon
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 23, April 2, 2007
Subjects: Marathon running--Competitions, Marathons--Competitions, Marathons--History
...to Become Western Civilization, the Athenians Won...that lay across the Aegean Sea from Athens on...holdouts of Greek civilization on the Aegean. Coming Collision...to become Western civilization. Liberal West had...
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What Do We Mean by Europe
Magazine article by J.G.A. Pocock; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Winter 1997
Subjects: Civilization, Western--History, Europe--History, European Union--Evaluation, Geographical perception--Evaluation, Historiography--Europe
...a continent and, second, a civilization. I shall speak as a moderate...very limited size, namely the Aegean Sea, as that part of the Mediterranean...an anomaly that shows how Aegean and Mediterranean concepts...world-dominating outlook developed by a civilization that evolved in those lands...
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Return to Greece
Magazine article by James Allan Evans; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 108, Spring 2001
Subjects: Athens, Greece--Description and travel, Civilization, Greek--History, Greece--History, Parthenon--History, Travel--Greece
...the cornerstone of Western civilization. MORE than forty years on...might have beheld the blue Aegean as easily as the legendary...sea known ever after as the Aegean. It is sobering to think that...anti-Turkish stance in the Aegean theatre, which played well...
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To Die for? Paul Cartledge Sees Ancient Spartan Society and Its Fierce Code of Honour as Something Still Relevant Today
Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 52, August 2002
Subjects: Civilization, Greek--Moral and ethical aspects, Sparta (Ancient city)--Social aspects
...Greeks in his oriental empire already stretching from the Aegean in the West to beyond the Hindu Kush. He discovered these...that constitutes one of the chief roots of our own Western civilization. That, at any rate, is certainly arguable. It helps to explain...
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The Martial Republics of Classical Greece
Magazine article by Paul A. Rahe; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Winter 1993
Subjects: Civilization, Greek--Military aspects, Greece--History, Militarism--History
...a case in point. In 499 B.C., the Greeks who inhabited the coastal communities of Asia Minor and the islands of the eastern Aegean had joined together in rebellion against their royal master, the Great King of Persia. A few years later, they sent naval contingents...
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Cradle of Vintners Rocks with Quality; Greeks Were First to Mark Grape as Part of Civilization
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 3, 2002
...first people to value wine as a mark of civilization rather than just a tool for intoxication...planted terraced vineyards overlooking the Aegean and hired Emile Peynaud from Bordeaux...red wines are produced on some of the Aegean islands, particularly Crete and Paros...
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The Glory of Athens; Land of Ancient Greek Gods Offers Warm Welcome in Winter
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 5, 2008
...the popularity of the ruins: Elektra Bar, Orestes Cafe, Iphegenia Restaurant, Belle Helene Hotel. The important Mycenaean civilization existed from about 1600 to 1100 B.C., when Mycenae was abandoned. The ruins of the fortified palace, home of the house of...
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Ancient, Ageless Crete
Newspaper article by Stefan Halper, Lezlee Brown; The Washington Times, June 14, 1998
Subjects: Crete
...artifacts in Western civilization, it provides a unique...Greek islands in the Aegean Sea north of Crete...had links with the Aegean islands in this early...important European civilizations. The frescoes depict...worlds oldest known civilization. Many will remember...
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Clinton Policy Hits Wall of Reality
Newspaper article by Andrew Cain; The Washington Times, November 28, 1999
...recently returned from a 10-day trip to Europe. From the Aegean to the Balkans he promoted his vision of a united Europe...White House reporter a glossy, hardback book titled "Cyprus: A Civilization Plundered." The book, a publication of the Hellenic Parliament...
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GREATEST of GREEK WARS; SUPPLEMENTING THUCYDIDES' HISTORY OF CONFLICT
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 3, 2003
Subjects: Kagan, Donald, Thucydides
...wished to recover the cities of the Aegean that Persia had once controlled. Athens...which he called for putting Western Civilization "at the center of our studies." Mr...insightful book, "the thin tissue of civilization that allows human beings to live decently...
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Aegean Civilization
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AEGEAN CIVILIZATION eje n, term for the Bronze Age...Greece. The complexity of those early civilizations was not suspected before the excavations...millennium b.c.; this was the Minoan civilization . On the mainland of Greece excavations...
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Mycenaean Civilization
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...misene n, an ancient Aegean civilization known from the excavations...of the contemporary Minoan civilization . The Mycenaeans entered Greece...culture of the late Mycenaean civilization of the 12th cent. b.c. (see...
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Minoan Civilization
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a stage in the development of the Aegean civilization . It is named for the legendary King...Knossos, the cultural center of the Aegean passed to the Greek mainland (see Mycenaean civilization ). See Sir Arthur J. Evans, Palace...
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Greek Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from very early times (see Aegean civilization ). This article covers the art...civilization and the Mycenaean civilization had developed complex and delicate...north laid waste the earlier Aegean cultures. While there was not...
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MÍlos , Island, Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Plaka. The islands products include grain, cotton, fruits, and olive oil. Milos flourished as a center of early Aegean civilization because of its deposits of obsidian and its strategic location between the Greek mainland and Crete. It lost importance...
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