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To: monkey

Sorry, that's what comes of typing off the top of your head. It's been almost 30 years since I took that Greek Archaeology course . . . I was thinking of the earlier disaster, possibly a Mycenaean invasion (although some think it was the eruption of Thera) that toppled the early Cretan palace culture around 1700 B.C. There had been a lot of cross-cultural exchange before that (hence the Linear B). Prof. Blegen thinks the Dorians came waltzing in somewhere around 1200 B.C. and destroyed the Cretan civilization utterly.


21 posted on 05/19/2005 8:53:41 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother

If you haven't been to Thera, it is well worth a trip. Beautiful, beautiful views. Also, there is a site currently being excavated that you can visit.


23 posted on 05/19/2005 8:58:45 PM PDT by monkey
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