单词 | cycladic |
释义 | Cycladicadj. Of or pertaining to the Cyclades, a group of islands in the Aegean, lying in a circle round Delos; spec. designating, or pertaining to, the prehistoric civilization of these islands. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] > Greek islands Rhodiana1533 Samian1579 Naxian1601 Scian1804 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Cycladic1915 1915 H. R. Hall Ægean Archæol. ii. 24 It has become a misnomer to call the island culture by a name connecting it in any way with the ‘Mycenæan’. The word ‘Cycladic’ is now used, as the chief discoveries of this early stage of Greek civilisation have been made in the Cyclades. 1920 Discovery June 178/2 ‘Cycladic’..is sometimes substituted for ‘Minoan’ when one speaks exclusively of the island sites outside of Crete. 1921 Brit. Museum Return 60 Large beaked jug of later Cycladic style..From Melos or Thera. 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Priests & Kings 113 These [sub-periods] have been named in the same way, ranging from Early Cycladic I to Late Cycladic III. 1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) iv. 49 While it has been customary to assign most cemeteries to the Early Cycladic period (before 2000 B.C.), Åberg has shown that some graves must be Middle or even Late Cycladic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1915 |
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