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Expert: - 10/23/2005


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For many years, the explosion that destroyed the island of Thera was believed to have occurred around 1500 BCE. It is now known that the volcanic eruption occurred in approximately 1628 BCE. What do you think are the implications of this new date for our understanding of what happened to Minoan civilization?

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Fla has been visited by a rather nasty hurricane ...power is very limiterd so cannot devote the time I would like to spend on answering your question, however as soon as things calm down and power returns full blast will do research to answer your question.


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Iru

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Irulan Serena

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Along with teaching classical Literature for over thirty-eight years, I have also taught history of the Greco-Roman cultures. History and Mythology are, in my opinion, inseparable; it is necessary to have a background in both to have a clear understanding of both ends of the spectrum, the myth and the fact.

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Thirty-eight years of teaching.

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