Richard Berry Seager
Pioneer Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman
Buy PublicationAuthor(s): Marshall Joseph Becker, Philip P. Betancourt
Published: 1997
ISBN: 9780924171475
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, is considered valid today.