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Cry KURUBİTDA

[kurupetos]

I'm crying because your ancestors were too coward to remain Hellenes like the rest of us...

[Get Real!]

I'm crying because your ancestors were too coward to remain Hellenes like the rest of us...

You’ll cry even more when you read this and realize how bad you’ve fucked up…

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeolog ... /paper.pdf

[kurupetos]

I'm crying because your ancestors were too coward to remain Hellenes like the rest of us...

You’ll cry even more when you read this and realize how bad you’ve fucked up…

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeolog ... /paper.pdf

It will probably take me ages to comprehend this document with my Lyceum education.

Can you provide a short summary?

[kurupetos]

In the meantime here's a nice link...

http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph ... ncient.htm

By relatively early in the first millennium BC, Greek was spoken over all of the Aegean islands and Cyprus,

In Cyprus in the first millennium BC, inscriptions occur that are written in a syllabary, entirely different from, but surely related to, the Mycenaean one, with both most likely having a common source, presumably Minoan Linear A.

[Get Real!]

It will probably take me ages to comprehend this document with my Lyceum education.

Can you provide a short summary?

Here's a nice section for you...

b. Nineteenth Century Historians and the Foundation Myths

During the first half of the 19th century the earliest academic attempts to compile a
general history of the island were made. In 1841 the German classicist W. Engel
published a monograph on Cyprus, containing information about the geography
(Erstes Buch), the history (Zweites Buch) as well as the religion and the myths of the
island with special emphasis on the cult of Aphrodite (Drittes Buch). Engel started his
history from the ancient times (Älteste Geschichte) and went as far as the Middle
Ages and Modern History. He stated that the island had been colonized by the Greeks
and subsequently hellenized. This conclusion was supported by a detailed account of
the foundation myths mentioned above. Engel was thus the first researcher to produce
a more or less complete collection of them (Engel 1841: 210-229). Some forty-five
years later a similar but not as detailed list of the foundation myths appeared in the
studies of another classicist from Germany, Enmann, who investigated the cult of
Aphrodite on the island and suggested that it was introduced by the Greek colonists
(Enmann 1886; 1887). Furthermore, the colonization narrative together with extensive
or more concise lists of the relevant myths are also to be found in late 19th-early 20th
century accounts of the history of the Greek world, in the chapter on the expansion of
the Greeks after the Trojan War and the coming of the Dorians (Hoffmann 1841:
1272-1300; Busolt 1893:318-322; Beloch 1893: 50-52).

The fact that all studies mentioned above were based almost exclusively on
textual references is hardly surprising. As the principles and methods of archaeology
were at elementary level, backing up literary information with archaeological data was not considered essential. Cypriot archaeology, in particular, was at its infancy and
consequently the available archaeological information was very limited (Marangou
1986: 310-314; Balandier 2001: 4-6). According to Dowden the “historical approach
toward the myths”, that is using myths as reliable historical sources, was a common
practice in historical research during this early period, especially as far as ancient
tribal migrations were concerned (Dowden 1992: 23-24).

[kurupetos]

The myth of Aphrodite? Damn I thought she really existed.