Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: sinanju

Probably there are iron parts (along with the gold decorations) as well as bronze parts. But anyway, no, the Italian peninsula wasn’t in a stone age then. The Mycenaean Greeks put colonies in and/or traded with various places in Sicily and Italy, and IMO, they were following the precedent set by the Minoans, whom they supplanted in the Aegean, Cyprus, and trading centers in Anatolia.


5 posted on 10/05/2008 4:09:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: SunkenCiv

I’ve often wondered if there was a Mycenean equivalent to the classical “Magna Graecia” of scattered trading colonies.


8 posted on 10/06/2008 6:48:42 AM PDT by sinanju
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson