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LANDMARKS OF THE MYCENAEAN WORLD 11
and brought into comparison, the stronger has grown the
evidence, if not the demonstration, of its substantially in-
digenous and Hellenic character. To-day archaeologists
generally, "while allowing more or less for foreign influence,
hold to this Hellenic view (if it may be so called); and it
is hoped that the present work will contribute somewhat
to its full demonstration.
While other terms (as Achaean and Aegean) have been
proposed, it seems desirable for the present to adhere to
that name for this civilization which is at once The term
suggested by its earliest known and (so far as yet MJ,ce,ia«an
ascertained) its chief seat, Mycenae. And to the authors
and bearers of this civilization throughout Greece, we must
apply the same term — Mycenaean. For while Mycenaean
culture has left its landmarks, as we have seen, from one
end of Greece to the other, as well as on the islands and
coasts of the Aegean, there has been handed down to us
no inclusive name for the primitive occupants of this wide
area.
The present work aims to exhibit in the fullest view now
possible the life and culture of the Mycenaean age. As
the central hearth of that civilization and the Scopeof
repository of its main extant monuments, Mycenae thia work
itself will naturally claim the first attention, but we shall
also include in our survey whatever may seem pertinent
and important in any part of the Greek world.
and brought into comparison, the stronger has grown the
evidence, if not the demonstration, of its substantially in-
digenous and Hellenic character. To-day archaeologists
generally, "while allowing more or less for foreign influence,
hold to this Hellenic view (if it may be so called); and it
is hoped that the present work will contribute somewhat
to its full demonstration.
While other terms (as Achaean and Aegean) have been
proposed, it seems desirable for the present to adhere to
that name for this civilization which is at once The term
suggested by its earliest known and (so far as yet MJ,ce,ia«an
ascertained) its chief seat, Mycenae. And to the authors
and bearers of this civilization throughout Greece, we must
apply the same term — Mycenaean. For while Mycenaean
culture has left its landmarks, as we have seen, from one
end of Greece to the other, as well as on the islands and
coasts of the Aegean, there has been handed down to us
no inclusive name for the primitive occupants of this wide
area.
The present work aims to exhibit in the fullest view now
possible the life and culture of the Mycenaean age. As
the central hearth of that civilization and the Scopeof
repository of its main extant monuments, Mycenae thia work
itself will naturally claim the first attention, but we shall
also include in our survey whatever may seem pertinent
and important in any part of the Greek world.