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Title: The eastern nations and Greece
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston New York : Ginn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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an recollection, much distorted of course, of the great empire of thekings of Cnossus. James Baikie (The Sea-kings of Crete (1913), p. 258) says: Theonly difficulty in accepting the identification (of Platos Atlantis with the island ofCrete) is that it is stated that the lost Atlantis lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules; butdoubtless this statement is due to Solons misinterpretation of what was said by hisEgyptian informant, or to the Saite priests endeavor to accommodate his ancient tradi-tion to the wider geographical knowledge of his own time. . . . Almost certainly, then,Platos story gives the Saite version of the actual Egyptian records of the greatnessand the final disaster of the great island state with which Egypt so long maintainedintercourse. Doubtless to the men of the latter part of the Eighteenth Dynasty thesudden blotting out of Minoan trade and influence by the overthrow of Cnossus seemedas strange and mysterious as though Crete had actually been swallowed up by the sea.
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ILATE VIII. The Vaphio Curs and their Scrules. (Cups fromphotographs; the scrolls drawn from facsimiles of the cups) Found in a tomb at Vaphio, near Sparta, in 1S89. The finest product of the goldsmiths art left to our wonderin-r eyes by the Achaean civilization of Greece. — Rufis !). Richardson REFERENCES 139 TSOUNTAS and Manatt, The MycencEan Age. Hall, The Oldest Civilizationof Greece. Ridgeway, The Early Age of Greece, 2 vols. All the works thusfar cited were written before the chief discoveries in the island of Crete, andthe opinions and conclusions of their authors must be tested and correctedby the revelations made since the opening of the present century by theexcavations at Cnossus and elsewhere. The following mofe recent workssummarize and interpret the new discoveries : Hall, ALgean Archceology;Mosso, The Palaces of Crete; Baikie, The Sea-kings of Crete; Fowler andWheeler, Greek Archeology, chap. i. Topics for Class Reports, i. Summary of the excavations: Hall, AigeanArch

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