Richard Berry Seager: Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman

by Philip P. Betancourt, Marshall J. Becker, Philip P. Betancourt

An examination of the life of Richard Seager is important for two reasons. First, it provides a glimpse of a character of a member of the second generation of researchers to work in Cretan archaeology and, second, Seager and his generation helped form our own preconceptions about the early history of Greece. His underlying thesis, that the Early Minoan society was the first European civilization, thus the foundation of Greek and later Western history,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924171472
• ISBN13: 9780924171475
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"