Word: offing
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Mr. Louis Dyer, M. A., of Oxford, England, gave the first of his three lectures on "Recent Discoveries in Crete" at the Fogg Lecture Room last night, taking for his special subject, "The Mycenaean Age." He said in part:
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The Mycenaean Age as it now begins to detach itself from the darkness of the "Bronze Age" is the first efflorescence of the Western, as distinguished from the Eastern genius for civilization and the arts. The Mycenaean Age intimately concerns us, if we wish to do full justice to the...
Besides the many discoveries in Crete in art and workmanship, Mr. Arthur Evans has brought new light on the origin of our alphabet, thus making it more western and Mycenaean in its source than has been commonly supposed. In religion also, much has been shown from the recent discoveries in...
The sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even...