Burrows, Ronald M.: The discoveries in Crete and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation (London, 1907)

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER IX

PAGES

CRETE AND THE EAST . . . . 133-162

Minoan and Semitic Religion—Minoan and Egyptian
Religion—The Distinctive Element in Cretan Orientalism—
Babylon and the Mediterranean—The Red Men of the
.Sigean—Carians and Phoenicians—The Coming of the
Greeks—The Mediterranean Race—The Minoan Scripts—Was
Minoan spoken at Mycenae ?—The Praesos Inscriptions—
Eteo-Cretan and Minoan—Eteo-Cretan and the Termination
in -nth—Minoan after the Sack of Knossos—The Meaning
of the Sack of Knossos.

CHAPTER X

CRETE AND THE NORTH.....163-183

Can Physical Type be modified ?—Early Mixture of Race,
shown by Skull Record and Types of Grave—The Round Hut
—The Narrow Waist—Height—Types of Sword—The Leaf-
shaped Sword at Knossos—Crete and the Mycenaean Mainland
—The Dominance of Crete—Cretan and Mainland Palaces—
The Leaf-shaped Sword at Mycenae.

CHAPTER XI

THE NEOLITHIC POTTERY OF SOUTH RUSSIA AND

CENTRAL EUROPE.....184-202

The Neolithic Spiral Area—The Art of Petreny—Theory
of jEgean Origin—Theory of Indo-European Origin—
Mediterranean Race Theory—Dorpfeld and the Achaeans—
The Central Hearth at Troy—Mycenae and the North.

CHAPTER XII

CRETE AND THE HOMERIC POEMS . . . 203-219

Tribal Names premature—True Doric—The Shield of
Achilles—The Palace of Alkinoos—Crete and Phasacia—
Cremation—The Homeric Problem—Iron and Bronze—Arete
and Alkinoos—Evolution.

• APPENDIX A (to p. 70)

THE EGYPTIAN YEAR..... 221-226

Sothic Cycles—The Beginning of the Calendar—Double
Dates—Latitude—Sothic and Julian Years.