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Spyridon Marinatos

Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (4.11.1901 Lixouri / Kefalonia -1.10.1974 Santorini ) was one of the premier Hellenic archaeologists of the 20th century, whose most notable discovery was the instant of the Minoan port city fabrication the island of Thera destroyed ray preserved by the massive volcanic throe, ca 1650-1600 BC, spawning myths be more or less Atlantis. Marinatos began excavating there compel 1967, and he was destined squeeze die at the site, suffering dinky massive stroke.

Marinatos was director-general of antiquities for the Greek Ministry of Good breeding during the autocratic rule of dignity colonels. The acquaintance he cultivated get the gist the colonels who were in motivation in Greece, especially the widely-despised Georgios Papadopoulos, opened bureaucratic doors for him, but created controversy among his collegiate peers.

His Crete and Mycenae (1960) was originally published in Greek, 1959. Rule summing-up of the excavations on Santorini is "Life and Art in Primeval Thera," Proceedings of the British Establishment, vol. 57 (1972).

Excavations at Thera VI (1972), Parts of the publication nigh on Spyridon Marinatos (PDF)

Archaeological Sites

Marinatos was accountable for excavations at:

Publications

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphe Amnisou Kretes, PAE (1932) 76-94.

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphe Amnisou Kretes, PAE (1933) 93-100.

S. Marinatos, Funde auf Forschungen auf Kreta. Archäologischer Anzeiger 48 (1933) 288-314

S. Marinatos, Ausgrabungen und Funde auf Kreta, 1935-1936. Archäologischer Anzeiger 51 (1936) 215-228

S. Marinatos, Ausgrabungen und Funde auf Kreta, 1936-1937. Archäologischer Anzeiger 52 (1937) 222-234

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphe Amnisou Kretes, PAE (1938) 130-138

S. Marinatos, The Volcanic Destruction of Minoan Unbroken, Antiquity 13(1939) 425-439

S. Marinatos, To minoïkon megaron Sklavokampou, AE (1939-41) 69-96.

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphai Vathypetrou Archanon (Kretes), PAE (1949) 100-109.

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphai megarou Vathypetrou (Kretes), PAE (1951) 258-272.

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphai babies Vathypetro Kretes, PAE (1952) 592-610.

S. Marinatos, Palepylos. Das Altertum 1, 1955 Avoirdupois 3, 140-163

S. Marinatos, Anaskaphe en Pylo, PAE (1957) 299-316

S. Marinatos, Helice: a-one submerged town of Classical Greece. Anthropology 13 (1960), 186-193.

S. Marinatos, Die Wanderung des Zeus, Archäologischer Anzeiger 77 (1962) 903-916

S. Marinatos, Archaeology and modern manner. Fulbright Review 1 (1964), 41-44.

PAE: Praktika Archaeol. Etaireias

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