Chronological Chart
[Transcriber's Note: the above Chronological Chart and the map mentioned on the title page were both missing from the source book.]
CRETE AND THE CIVILIZATION OF
THE EARLY AEGEAN WORLD
CRETE AND THE CIVILIZATION
OF THE EARLY AEGEAN WORLD
CHAPTER I
THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
To the people of the ancient world the Mediterranean was "The Sea"; they knew almost nothing of the great ocean that lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules. A few of the more daring of the Phoenician navigators had sailed out into the Atlantic, but to the ordinary sailor from the Mediterranean lands the Ocean was an unknown region, believed to be a sea of darkness, the abode of terrible monsters and a place to be avoided. And then, as they believed the world to be flat, to sail too far would be to risk falling over the edge.