• Spyridon Marinatos (Greek: Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Bronze...
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  • especially Minoan religion. Nanno Marinatos was born in Athens in 1950; her parents were Aimila Loverdos and Spyridon Marinatos, an archaeologist of the Bronze...
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  • Marathon Spyridon Marinatos, 20th century archaeologist Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician Spyridon Mavrogenis, Phanariot (Ottoman) Greek doctor Spyridon Merkouris...
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    millennium BC Minoan bronze votive double axe (labrys) excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in 1934 in the Arkalochori cave in Crete, which is believed to have...
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    in the world. Excavations began in 1949 by the Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos. The estate contains a manor house or villa which had a prominent...
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    modern excavation was started in 1967 by Spyridon Marinatos and revealed the full value of this site. Marinatos's choice of the site proved to be correct...
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    wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or...
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    Illinois Press Marinatos, Spyridon, 1960. Crete and Mycenae (originally published in Greek, 1959), photographs by Max Hirmer. Marinatos, Spyridon, 1972. "Life...
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    Maine, killed 29,000 hens and caused over $50,000 in damage. Died: Spyridon Marinatos, 72, Greek archaeologist, discoverer of the ruined city of Aktotiri...
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    300 Spartans during the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. In 1939, Spyridon Marinatos, a Greek archaeologist found large numbers of Persian arrows around...
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  • title was briefly reintroduced in the 1960s, and occasionally used by Spyridon Marinatos during the Regime of the Colonels, then abolished again in 1982. Though...
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    E. M. Antoniadi, archaeologists Ioannis Svoronos, Valerios Stais, Spyridon Marinatos, Manolis Andronikos (discovered the tomb of Philip II of Macedon in...
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    Excavations from Melissani, made under Spyridon Marinatos. Today in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli...
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    down arrows until every last Greek was dead. In 1939, archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos, excavating at Thermopylae, found large numbers of Persian bronze...
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    at Akrotiri on the Island of Thera (Santorini), as a successor to Spyridon Marinatos. He published several books and scholarly articles on Aegean archaeology...
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    The tomb of Thrasymedes, on the other hand, has been excavated by Spyridon Marinatos in the 1950s and by G.S. Korres in the 1970s, since the latter noticed...
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    Excavations starting in 1967 at the Akrotiri site under the late Professor Spyridon Marinatos have made Thera the best-known Minoan site outside Crete, homeland...
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    hellénique, vol. 70 (1946), p. 602 f. Y. Duhoux, op. cit., pp. 55–79. Spyridon Marinatos, "Γραμμάτων διδασκάλια", in Minoica: Festschrift zum 80. Geburstag...
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    exclusively the one Leto appeared in. In Crete, at the city of Dreros, Spyridon Marinatos uncovered an eighth-century post-Minoan hearth house temple in which...
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    human figures do not usually appear in "landscape" fresco scenes. Spyridon Marinatos excavated the ancient site at Akrotiri, then capital of Santorini...
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    museum nearly collapsed. The director of the Heraklion Museum was then Spyridon Marinatos, who made great efforts to find funds and persuade the locals and...
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    as evidence of phreatic explosions, among many other descriptions. Spyridon Marinatos, the discoverer of the Akrotiri archaeological site, suggested that...
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    Greek archaeologist who published Pausanias’ Description of Greece. Spyridon Marinatos, emphasizing the importance of the discovery of Helike, said that...
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    commemorate the Greek victory at Plataea. In 1939, Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos found the remains of numerous Persian arrowheads at the Kolonos Hill...
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  • Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, Romanian sociologist and activist (d. 1954) 1901 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic (d. 1974) 1904 – Tadeusz...
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    Dimiter Statkov 1967: Iván Fenyő Vladimír Kompánek Witold Lutosławski Spyridon Marinatos Alexandru A. Philippide Mihai Pop Svetozar Radojčić 1968: Constantin...
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    (1903–1981), composer and conductor Andreas Laskaratos (1811–1901), poet Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) archaeologist Dionysios Zakythinos (1905–1993), Byzantinist...
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    Philip II), Valerios Stais (recognised the Antikythera mechanism), Spyridon Marinatos (specialised in Mycenaean sites) and Ioannis Svoronos; chemists Leonidas...
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    Dimiter Statkov 1967: Iván Fenyő Vladimír Kompánek Witold Lutosławski Spyridon Marinatos Alexandru A. Philippide Mihai Pop Svetozar Radojčić 1968: Constantin...
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    Dimiter Statkov 1967: Iván Fenyő Vladimír Kompánek Witold Lutosławski Spyridon Marinatos Alexandru A. Philippide Mihai Pop Svetozar Radojčić 1968: Constantin...
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