Posted on 05/15/2009 6:00:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The ancient town of Pavlopetri lies in three to four metres of water just off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece. The ruins date from at least 2800 BC through to intact buildings, courtyards, streets, chamber tombs and some thirty-seven cist graves which are thought to belong to the Mycenaean period (c.1680-1180 BC). This Bronze Age phase of Greece provides the historical setting for much Ancient Greek literature and myth, including Homer's Age of Heroes... Although Mycenaean power was largely based on their control of the sea, little is known about the workings of the harbour towns of the period as archaeology to date has focused on the better known inland palaces and citadels. Pavlopetri was presumably once a thriving harbour town where the inhabitants conducted local and long distance trade throughout the Mediterranean -- its sandy and well-protected bay would have been ideal for beaching Bronze Age ships. As such the site offers major new insights into the workings of Mycenaean society... The submerged buildings, courtyards, streets, tombs and graves, lie just off a sandy stretch of beach close to an area popular with holiday makers and campers... Joining the team will be Dr Nicholas Flemming who discovered the site in 1967... The archaeological material -- pottery, figurines, obsidian and small finds -- they collected belong to the Early Helladic, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic period (c. 2800-1180 BC).
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Thespians?
So they put on a play?
Yes. A Tragedy in three acts!
The Thespians were also at Thermopylae, but they had a lousy agent and got no publicity.
c.3000 - 2800 BC | The city of Pavlopetri is founded on the south-eastern coastal tip of the Peloponnese, in southern Laconia. Pavlopetri's inhabitants later copy Cretan and mainland styles, making exact ceramic copies of high status Cretan bronze jugs, in effect making cheap copies of expensive exotic goods in much the same way that desirable designer brands are copied today. But the early city is neither a Minoan colony or a Mycenaean settlement - it predates both peoples in the area, making it more likely to be a Pelasgian settlement that is later absorbed by the Mycenaeans and is subject to heavy Minoan influence or control in the second millennium BC. The city flourishes, reaching a peak around 2000 BC, by which time it is certainly a Mycenaean city.
Modern computer graphics show a reconstructed Pavlopetri based on surviving ruins and remnants of the street plan, all of which still exist about three metres under the sea | Pelasgians
Pavlopetri - City Beneath the Waves - 'rebuilt'
Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town - Part 1
Lecture - Pavlopetri: The Oldest Submerged City in the World, April 2016
I've been streaming this during the afternoon/evening, Ep 6 he visits Pavlopetri.
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