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Article: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- January 1, 1999
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By ERIC H. CLINE. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, vol. 591. Oxford: TEMPUS REPARATUM, 1994. Pp. xxii + 316, 10 plates. [pounds]34.
The subject of the relations between the Aegean world and the East, including Egypt, seems to have found increasing favor over the past twenty years. M. Bernal's Black Athena (London: Free Association Books, 1987) is a sign, more than a cause, of this renewed interest. The book under review advances significantly this debate.
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is the revised version of a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. It essentially consists of two parts. Fifteen ...