Definition of Aegean civilisation

1. Noun. The prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries. "By 800 BC the entire Aegean had adopted this style of pottery"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Aegean Civilisation

Aedes aegypti
Aedes albopictus
Aedes caballus
Aedes leucocelaenus
Aedes polynesiensis
Aedes scapularis
Aedes sollicitans
Aedes variegatus
Aegadean Islands
Aegadean Isles
Aegadian Islands
Aegates
Aegates Isles
Aegean
Aegean Sea
Aegean civilisation
Aegean civilization
Aegean culture
Aegean island
Aegeans
Aegen
Aegenbald
Aegenwulf
Aegiceras
Aegiceras majus
Aegidius
Aegilops triuncalis
Aegina
Aeginetan

Literary usage of Aegean civilisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"aegean civilisation. CRETE If Greece, as we may fairly believe, ... It is only recently that we have become aware of this " Aegean " civilisation, ..."

2. The School World (1902)
"In the first place, much light has been thrown on the duration and rate of progress of aegean civilisation. The discovery of a really Neolithic settlement, ..."

3. Greek Art and National Life by Solomon Charles Kaines Smith (1914)
"The classical art of Greece is separated from that of the aegean civilisation, so far as the evidence of surviving monuments is concerned, ..."

4. Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo by Mary Hamilton Swindler (1913)
"... was in the hands of the Achaeans, whose position in aegean civilisation, although not definitely known, is in any case intimately con- ..."

5. Roman Sacrificial Altars: An Archaeological Study of Monuments in Rome by Helen Cox Bowerman (1913)
"XIII, 1906-1907, The Early aegean civilisation in Italy. " Carter, The Religious Life of Ancient Some, p. 17. " Cf. von Lichtenberg, op. cit., pp. ..."

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