Smith, S. C. Kaines (Solomon Charles Kaines) · London : James Nisbet · leaf 87
ter memory, so faintthat it had come to be laughed at for a fairy tale.Now it is real once more, and the fairy tale reveals THE SACK OF KNOSSOS 63 its kernel of history, because the art of that people,as of all others, was the index and illustration oftheir national life, and the spade has brought… … CLAY TABLET FROM PPIAISTOS, WITH LINEAR SCRIPT IV THE MYCEN.EAN CIVILISATION ANDITS PLACE IN HISTOEY Crete has faded from the position of protagonistin the drama of Aegean history, and to carry thathistory further we must seek elsewhere. Into whathands did the power pass ? If the assumption that…
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