Les grecs et la mer. Histoire de l’archéologie a sick cult of personality

a sick cult of personality

Bibliothèque du Muséon volume 6

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It presents the history of the Scythian civilization as an introduction

Les grecs et la mer. Histoire de l’archéologie a sick cult of personalityThe Greeks, it is said, are born sailors. This remark is considered a certainty. To support it, people cite the fact that no point in Greece is more than 100 km from the coast, the tribulations of Ulysses, the colonies established in the Mediterranean basin, the thalassocracy, the maritime hegemony that was the object of so much rivalry between the Greek cities, the fleet of Themistocles, or even the famous "Thalassa, thalassa!", uttered, Xenophon