학술논문
Cycladic
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Branigan, Keith, author; Fortenberry, C. D., author; Morgan, Lyvia, author; Barber, R. L. N., author; Doumas, Christos G., author; Plantzos, Updated and revised by Dimitris, author; Plantzos, Dimitris, author; Warren, P. M., author; Higgins, Reynold, author; Fitton, J. Lesley, author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003, ill.
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Culture that flourished during the Greek Bronze Age in the Cyclades, a large archipelago in the Aegean Sea between southern Greece and Turkey (see fig.). The islands, whose name derives from kuklos (‘circle’) because they encircled the holy island of Delos, are bounded to the south by the much larger island of Crete. They were both probably first settled in the Early Neolithic period by peoples from western Anatolia (now Turkey), but in the Bronze Age the Cyclades and Crete (see Minoan) developed their own distinctive art and architecture, in each case strongly influenced by the islands’ natural environment. For the later history of the islands, see Greece, ancient and the modern Hellenic Republic of Greece, Hellenic Democracy of. J. Bent: The Cyclades (London, 1885)U. Kahrstedt: ‘Zur Kykladenkultur’, ...