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	Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos
		Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (4.11.1901 Lixouri / Kefalonia -1.10.1974 Santorini) was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century, whose most notable discovery was the site of the Minoan port city on the island of Thera destroyed and preserved by the massive volcanic eruption, ca 1650-1600 BC, spawning myths of Atlantis.
		Marinatos began excavating there in 1967, and he was destined to die at the site, suffering a massive stroke.
		Marinatos, Anaskaphai en Vathypetro Kretes, PAE (1952) 592-610.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewArch/SpyridonNikolaouMarinatos.html (246 words)

	Spyridon Marinatos (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Marinatos si era schierato dalla parte dei colonnelli fin dall’inizio solo per calcolo, senza entusiasmi di parte, nella speranza di poter lavorare con maggiore impegno al suo ambizioso progetto di Atlantide, con le sovvenzioni che i suoi amici di Atene gli avrebbero concesso.
		Quando Spyridon Marinatos morì improvvisamente, in circostanze tragiche, nel primo pomeriggio del primo ottobre 1974, nel sito preistorico di Akrotiri, nell’isola di Santorini, mentre stava ancora lavorando alla ricerca della “sua” Atlantide, venne sepolto in fretta e furia nel sito stesso.
		Marinatos credeva che fosse stato proprio il ricordo di questa fiorente civiltà e della sua tragica scomparsa a dare origine al mito di Atlantide narrato da Platone.
	www.lostinn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /lworld/marinatos.htm (1813 words)

	Spyridon Marinatos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His most notable discovery was the site of Akrotiri, a Minoan port city on the island of Thera, which was simultaneously destroyed and preserved by a massive volcanic eruption spawning the myth of Atlantis.
		Marinatos began excavations in 1967 and died at the site in 1974, after suffering a massive fall.
		The acquaintance he cultivated with the colonels who were in power in Greece, especially the widely-despised Georgios Papadopoulos, opened bureaucratic doors for him, but created controversy among his academic peers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spyridon_Marinatos (203 words)

	Thera
		Led by Dr. Spyridon Marinatos for six seasons, teams uncovered the "fragile ruins of a prosperous Minoan city" (Braymer, 151).
		Marinatos took deep-sea core samples from the bottom of the caldera and "made a ‘map' of its floor with a sonar device" (Braymer, 154).
		Marinatos opened the possibility that the Egyptians may have known little or nothing about the island of Thera, gaining all their knowledge from "the men of Keftiu," or Cretan traders.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/IPHS/Projects/Stella/Thera.htm (1034 words)

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		He had wanted to start exploring the island at that time...; due to the outbreak of World War II and the Greek Civil War, Marinatos was unable to explore the island until the 1960s.
		The research Marinatos tried to do on previous archaeological explorations of the island was difficult because there were no written records and all evidence of exploration had been destroyed by plowing.
		Marinatos was finally able to begin excavation at Akrotiri in1967.
	www.lycos.com /info/akrotiri--miscellaneous.html (576 words)

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		Marinatos, Dr. Nanno, Art and Religion in Thera, Reconstructing a Bronze Age Society.
		The author, daughter of Spyridon Marinatos, was born in Athens.
		Much past criticism of Herodotus has resulted from failure to appreciate his originality, not only as an inquirer into the past, and interpreter of it, but as an artist and man of letters, faced with an immense range of uncoordinated facts, and with literary traditions and techniques which are inadequate to present them intelligibly.
	greek-myth.com /Book_Store/M/m.htm (1058 words)

	Santorini Guide & Directory
		Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known "Minoan" site outside of Crete, the homeland of the culture.
		If the Exodus theory is to be believed, the duration of the Minoan eruption until its tsunami-generating caldera collapse makes it more likely that the volcano could have only caused one of biblical events and not both.
		Starting with Spyridon Marinatos' 1939 landmark paper, this cataclysm at Santorini and its possibility to have caused the fall of the Minoan Civilization is sometimes regarded as a likely source for Plato's story of Atlantis.
	www.geocities.com /ikarosstudios/cyclades/santorini.htm (1776 words)

	Amazon.com: "Spyridon Marinatos": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1939, Spyridon Marinatos, Christos Doumas's teacher and the first director of the excavations here at Thera, put forth a theory in the archaeological...
		En route to Israel Benjamin crossed paths with a Greek archaeologist named Spyridon Marinatos, who, on the island of Crete, had been excavating under the directorship of Leonard Woolley's mentor, Sir Arthur Evans.
		Spyridon Marinatos (1939), who also worked on Crete, generated much...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Spyridon-Marinatos (553 words)

	Spyridon Marinatos - Wikipedia
		Marinatos glaubte, in der minoischen Kultur den historischen Kern von Platons Atlantis-Erzählung gefunden zu haben.
		Die von ihm entdeckten Wandmalereien des antiken Thera sind heute wieder, nachdem sie viele Jahre in Athen waren, an Ort und Stelle in einem neuerbauten Museum zu sehen.
		Seit Marinatos Tod unter der Leitung seines damaligen Assistenten Christos Doumas.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spyridon_Marinatos (207 words)

	The Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in the Central Aegean Islands
		The reconstruction which follows is that most widely shared as of 1986, a little less than fifty years since Spyridon Marinatos published his landmark article postulating a connection between the Theran eruption and the collapse of Minoan palatial civilization.
		Marinatos' exposure of some houses which had been repaired in a rather makeshift fashion and subsequently re-occupied led him to conclude initially that the site had been permanently abandoned by most of its inhabitants as a result of the earthquake but that parts of it were inhabited before the volcanic eruption by "squatters".
		Marinatos (1939), Page (1970), Doumas (1974), Luce (1976)] that one or more of the events associated with the period of extreme activity of the Santorini volcano surveyed above [i.e.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /history/bronze_age/lessons/les/17.html (2434 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This may or may not make sense given that Plato claimed that Atlantis existed 9000 years before him, and not the 900 years that separated the eruption on Thera and his time.
		The Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos was the first to believe that there was something buried under the farmlands of the island of Thera, specifically near the modern village of Akrotiri.
		He had wanted to start exploring the island at that time, however; due to the outbreak of World War II and the Greek Civil War, Marinatos was unable to explore the island until the 1960s.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/europe/thera.html (492 words)

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		Pellegrino, paleontologist associated with Brookhaven National Laboratory where he does idea forecasting, reports the archaeological exploration of a Minoan seaport on Thera itself by archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos, assembling information from many scientific disciplines and imagining the possible implications of these data and that event.
		Pellegrino loosely drapes his book’s storyline around Plato’s myth about the lost city Atlantis and argues, as did Marinatos, that the destruction of the island of Thera is the source of Plato’s myth about Atlantis.
		For me, tying the Thera tale and the Marinatos excavation to Plato’s myth is interesting, but it is much less interesting than the vast array of information Pellegrino brings to his account.
	home.att.net /~pfrswr/pelle_91.doc (684 words)

	TIME.com: Light on Lost Epochs -- Apr. 16, 1973 -- Page 1
		Spyridon Marinatos, the chief excavator and director of Greece's department of antiquities, compares it to the Iliad.
		This activity takes place against a landscape populated by lions, deer, panthers, leopards and even a griffin, the mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.
		If Marinatos is correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,878544,00.html (593 words)

	Traveling Classroom
		After further studies, Marinatos published his theory that a volcanic eruption on the island of Théra, more than a hundred miles to the north, had destroyed the Amnissos villa, laid waste to the entire north coast of Crete and ruined the Minoan economy.
		Marinatos decided the best way to convince them was to excavate on Théra.
		The village was ignored and local farmers and craftsmen went quietly about their work, as they had done for generations.
	www.travelingclassroom.org (6997 words)

	HACAC: 1995-96 events
		Life and Art in Ancient Santorini, 1600 B.C. Presentation of the findings from the excavations in the island of Santoriniti by the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos.
		Nano Marinatos has participated in the excavations and she will focus in her lecture upon the knowledge we gain from the interpretation of the archaeological findings and the frescoes in particular.
		Marinatos is Professor of Archaeloogy for the College Year in Athens Program.
	www.hacac.org /culture/f95s96.html (367 words)

	Natural History Magazine \| Feature
		In 1968 Spyridon Marinatos, director-general of antiquities for the Greek ministry of culture who had searched unsuccessfully for the city, called attention to what were then three important problems in Greek archaeology: the sites of ancient Thera, ancient Thebes, and ancient Helike.
		At the urging of Spyridon Marinatos, Harold Edgerton, inventor of sonar that is capable of subbottom penetration, looked for the city in the 1960s and did not find it.
		Suspecting that Helike, after centuries of sedimentation and uplift, might lie buried beneath the inland alluvium, Soter and Dora Katsonopoulou, whom Soter had met at Cornell, began in 1991 to sink boreholes into the coastal plain.
	www.naturalhistorymag.com /features/1100_feature.html (1412 words)

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		The first habitation at the site dates from the Late Neolithic times (at least the 4th millennium B.C.) came to an abrupt end in the last quarter of the 17th century B.C. when the inhabitants were obliged to abandon it as a result of severe earthquakes.
		Excavations began in 1967 by Professor Spyridon Marinatos and after his death have been continued under the direction of Professor Christos Doumas.
		The Flotilla miniature frieze Ran around all the four walls of the room and depicted a major overseas voyage, in the course of which, the fleet visited several harbors and towns.
	library.thinkquest.org /04oct/01181/photo_gallery.htm (1791 words)

	Akrotiri, Greece
		Near the village of Akrotíri, 12 km/7.5 mi southwest of Firá, the Greek archeologist Spyridon Marinatos brought to light between 1967 and his death in 1974 considerable areas of a large town destroyed in the great eruption.
		Indeed, Marinatos himself was killed during the excavation work and is buried in a building opposite the spot where the accident occurred.
		Entering the site (which is roofed over for protection from the weather) on the south side, we pass between houses which have been preserved to first- and second-floor level.
	www.planetware.com /greece/akrotiri-gr-aeg-akro.htm (427 words)

	Santorini Island Museum and Sights - Cyclades - Holidays in Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This is one of the archaeological sites in Greece where a good guide, or at least a good guide book, will come handy as explanations are needed for one to really appreciate what unfolds before you.
		His work began in the early 30's and lasted until the day he was killed during an accident at the site in 1974.
		Professor Marinatos found the paved streets of Akrotiri lined with multi story houses all connected by a sophisticated central drainage system.
	www.egreece.gr /cyclades/san/general/museums.htm (1572 words)

	DISCOVERIES AT ANCIENT HELIKE
		Spyridon Marinatos, late Director General of Antiquities and discoverer of the prehistoric town on Santorini, pursued the search for Helike over many years.
		Marinatos (1964) looked forward to "the discovery of a whole ancient town far more precious and interesting than Pompeii" and said it would be "almost surely the most spectacular archaeological discovery ever made."
		Marinatos, S. Helice: a submerged town of Classical Greece.
	www.helike.org /paper.html (1890 words)

	ARTICLE (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Aiming at the confirmation of his theory, professor Spyridon Marinatos began the excavations at Akrotiri in 1967, opening a new chapter in the history of Aegean archaeology.
		The theory was that the decline of the Minoan civilization was due to the eruption of the Thera volcano.
		Although these still ongoing excavations have refuted Marinatos’ theory, they have brought into light an immense volume of finds, the study of which has provided important information, very often leading to revision of many old views about the early history of the Aegean.
	theranstudies.santorini.net.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php?id=310&L=0 (346 words)

	Atlantis—Myth or History?
		Others think Atlantis was in fact the Greek island of Thera—a theory fed by recent archaeological discoveries.
		In the late 1960s Professor Spyridon Marinatos discovered the remains of a Bronze Age city near Akrotiri, on the island of Thera (Santorini).
		The city's streets, buildings, pottery, and colorful wall paintings prove that it was a wealthy society much like the Minoan civilization of nearby Crete.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/atlantis1.html (447 words)

	Millennium Ark: Hot News
		The Minoans were major players in the Eastern Mediterranean from roughly 3,000 B.C. to 1550 B.C, when the ancient Greeks, the same guys who went on to besiege Troy, took over.
		The late Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos in 1939 proposed that the eruption, a scant 70 miles away from Crete, caused the end of the Minoan civilization.
		It was some blast, says vulcanologist Haraldur Sigurdsson of the University of Rhode Island, lead author of the Eos study.
	www.millennium-ark.net /NEWS/06_Earth_Changes/060829.Atlantis.html (699 words)

	Earth Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1932, Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos was excavating a Minoan villa at Amnissos, a harbor town on the northern coast of Crete.
		Marinatos knew that 62 miles to the north, across the Aegean's cobalt blue water, lay a cluster of five islands, the shattered remnant of an enormous volcano called
		If the explosion took place during the day, the day was surely turned into night and much damage was caused by the tremendous vibration of the air.
	www.tomgidwitz.com /main/explorer.htm (3805 words)

	Racial Types in Art from Thera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is fortunate though, that as is the case for Pompeii, a large number of murals and artworks have been preserved in the layers of volcanic ash that covered the city of Akrotiri.
		It is estimated that the complete excavation of the site, started by Spyros Marinatos in th 1960s, will take decades to complete.
		The slender, vivid physique of the islanders, the prominent straight nose, dark hair, eyes and eyebrows live little doubt that, as in Crete, the predominant racial element in Thera was the Mediterranean one, as shown in the examples that follow, taken from Spyridon Marinatos, Excavation at Thera, vol.
	www.geocities.com /dienekesp2/artfromthera/index.html (176 words)

	Amazon.com: "Nanno Marinatos": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In her analysis of well-preserved quasi-Minoan shrines on Thera, Nanno Marinatos (1984) saw the adyton as a focal point and place of separation to which initiates were admitted singly or in...
		Both Mark Cameron and Nanno Marinatos (1984) have developed the very important idea that the decorative schemes sign the functions of whole suites of rooms, a...
		The Goddess and the Warrior by Nanno Marinatos
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Nanno-Marinatos (394 words)

	Atlantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1967, the Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos began excavating Thera, a volcanic island 60 miles north of Crete in the Mediterranean.
		Marinatos determined that Thera was destroyed by one of the world's largest volcanic eruptions in around 1500 b.c.
		Some people think Thera could be the island of Atlantis.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/greece/73.html (245 words)

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