GreekIslandGirl wrote:Get Real! wrote:The very fine thread by which the Greek gymnasium theory hangs, is of a sudden arrival of multitudes of Mycenaeans to Cyprus! But of course there is not a shred of evidence to support that and it doesn't even follow logic...
It could not have happened because..
1.They did not need to. People don't wake up one morning and say... "What a jolly day... let us all move to Cyprus!".
2.They could’ve never agreed unanimously on such a mass transfer. Humans are not like birds who migrate unanimously following a pre-programmed instinct.
3.They would’ve never ignored 600Km of parallel Turkish coastline and opt for such a far away island most had never even heard of! Why is the huge Turkish coastline ignored?
4.Anyone who did manage to arrive on the shores of Cyprus and regardless of where they came from, would've been INSTANTLY absorbed and digested by the existing civilization.
Its easy to see the fantastical Greek propaganda because the world simply…
DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT!
You forget that the Mycenaeans, and other inhabitants of the now-known Greek world, were derived from the same group of people, spreading out by land and sea from thousands of years previously. They were known to each other because they were related (so few people around then) and co-operated, or fought, as they moved around, looking for farming sites. The fact that similar neolithic dwellings existed from as far flung as the now-known northern Greek world all the way down to Cyprus forms part of the continuum we include in ethnicity. The similarities continued, proven once written records were made, then with more familiar Greek-style temples erected in Cyprus, the participation during Byzantium etc - right up to the present day with the many extant cultural similarities we still maintain, but which irk recent invaders.
Go back far enough and everyone is related. Sure no problem with that. Adam and Eve and all that....
But what evidence do you bring to PROVE that the Mycenaeans have ethnic roots in Cyprus and why do you ignore the people that existed beforehand?
Your thesis is flawed because you are basically saying that the new world can't derive their own ethnicity and I am sure that they, being far more progressive than you, will beg to differ.
And what came first, the Greek Style temples in Cyprus or Greece? Maybe they are not "Greek" style temples but Cypriot temples, adopted by the Greeks making Cyprus THEIR mother. That would make Greece our problem child.
Who gave those barbarians a script?
Why didn't I think of that! They were texting each other on their Blackberries! 
