THE SEA-KINGS OF CRETE
AND THE PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION OF GREECE
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The writer’s aim in this volume has been to present to the general reader, in an untechnical and readable form, the results of the various explorations which have recently done so much to enlarge our knowledge of the great prehistoric civilization which preceded that of classic Greece, and on whose ruins Greek culture, as we know it, arose. The ancient legends pointing to the existence of a great sea-power in prehistoric Crete are narrated, and a short account is given of the civilization assumed in the Homeric poems. Thereafter, the work of Schliemann, leading to the discovery of the Mycenæan culture, is briefly described, and, turning to Crete itself, an account is given of the remarkable discoveries at Knossos, Phæstos, and elsewhere, which have revealed the relics of the wonderful empire of the Minoan sea-kings with its advanced civilization.
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