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Aegean, a.|iːˈdʒiːən|
Also Aegaean.
[f. L. Aegaeus, ad. Gr. αἰγαῖος Aegean + -an.]
a. Of, pertaining to, or situated in the area between the Greek mainland and Asia Minor, esp. Aegean Sea, the name of the sea that lies between Greece and Turkey.
[1573T. Twyne tr. Virgil's æneid xii. sig. Mm l, When forth it bloustringe blowes, and deape ægæum sea doth raise.] 1614W. Lithgow Peregrinations from Scotl. sig. G 2 These Iles Sporades, are scattered in the ægean sea. 1667Milton P.L. i. 746 And with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, on Lemnos, th' ægæan isle. 1718H. Coxwell tr. Odes of Horace ii. xvi. 51 In the ægean Ocean, struck with Fear. 1820Shelley Ode to Liberty iv, in Prometh. Unb. 210 Yet a speechless child, Verse murmured, and Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee; when o'er the ægean main Athens arose. 1886J. H. Wright tr. M. Collignon's Man. Gr. Archæol. 373/1 (Index), Aegean Islands. 1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans vii. 193 Further east, near Vinca, the [Danubian] culture was modified by influences from the Aegean area. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 117/1 Vases everywhere in the Aegean area had been decorated with designs in dark rather shiny paint.
b. Of, or associated with Bronze Age Greek civilization in the Aegean area.
1890W. M. F. Petrie Kahun, Gurob & Hawara v. 44/1 The Ha-nebu, or ‘lords of the north’—a name which always means the Aegean peoples, at least in later times. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 55/2 In certain localities, for instance, Cyprus, Crete, and most of the Aegean islands,..Mycenaean remains..form in fact a stratum to be expected on the site of almost every ancient Aegean settlement. 1915H. R. Hall (title) Aegean archaeology. 1933J. L. Myres in Jrnl. R. Anthropol. Inst. LXIII. 279 Even earlier Aegean periods. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man iii. 92 The Aegean sailors had reached the Atlantic at latest by 2200 B.C. 1952T. K. Penniman 100 Years Anthropol. iv. 218 Flinders Petrie..had the good fortune to find Aegean pottery in a XIIth Dynasty building at Kahun. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 119/1 Most of what has survived of Aegean Bronze Age writing is on clay tablets.
c. the Aegean, the Aegean Sea.
1814Byron Corsair (1981) III. iii. i. 191 Again the ægean, heard no more afar, Lulls his chafed breast from elemental war. 1828J. A. Cramer Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Anc. Greece I. i. 7 The Mare Myrtoum was that part of the ægæan which lay between the coast of Argolis and Attica. 1846G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. i. 287 The Peneius, which carries off all the waters of Thessaly, finding an exit into the ægean through the narrow defile which parts Ossa from Olympus. 1888A. H. Sayce Hittites iv. 76 From Carchemish to the ægean. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods viii. 184 The sea route from the ægean to the Black Sea. 1987Guardian 13 Mar. 12/3 I will state bluntly that there is not a single site in the Aegean whose material would lead a modern specialist to suppose that it was occupied by Egyptians or Levantines. |