The pre-Mycenaean civilization on the Cyclades islands in the S Aegean sea

Usage examples of cyclades.

In the cloudless July skies of the Cyclades this presented no problem at all.

In the Cyclades, in the summer months - and indeed in most or the Aegean -- it blew steadily, but usually only in the afternoon and early evening, from the north-west.

Weather conditions in the Cyclades between early July and mid-September are remarkably predictable.

They -- whoever they are -- wouldn't have brought it down anywhere in the Sea of Crete -- that's the area between the Peloponnese in the west, the Dodecanese in the east, the Cyclades in the north and Crete to the south -- because by far the greater part of that area is between 1,500 and 7,000 feet - much too deep for recovery by diving.

Their representations had all the more weight owing to the appearance of the Macedonian ships cruising amongst the Cyclades and in the Aegean, the united action which Perseus and Gentius were taking, and the rumour that the Gauls were coming with a large force of infantry and cavalry.

For days he had been growing increasingly worried that I might renege on my tentative agreement to take his cargo to Naxos and that he would have to sail the gauntlet of the Cyclades himself.

Instead of being able to keep well to the south we would have to stand up between Crete and the Peloponnesos and then hold on among the Cyclades, the spray of islands spread across the entrance to the Aegean like the rim of a wheel.

Naxos, the most fertile and the loveliest of the Cyclades, made hideous by Woman.

And he went by Cythnus, and by Ceos, and the pleasant Cyclades to Attica.

For many a league they followed them, over all the isles of the Cyclades, and away to the south-west across Hellas, till they came to the Ionian Sea, and there they fell upon the Echinades, at the mouth of the Achelous.

The trireme fleet against the Mahometan people From Parthia, and Media: and the Cyclades pillaged: Long rest at the great Ionian port.

An armada of caiques will sail from the Piraeus on Thursday at dawn and island-hop across the Cyclades, holing up in the islands at night.

He said his information had been wrong, he'd been fooled, that the invasion fleet didn't hold up overnight in the Cyclades, that they had come straight through under the heaviest air and E-boat escort ever seen in the Med.

At length, for want of better, though I was perishing for sleep I flew her across the Sporades and Cyclades, all the way to Corinth, binding her tightly across Pegasus's back to prevent her jumping off: we landed by night atop the royal horse-barns, astonishing two owls and the Amazon on watch -- whom I recognized as fat Hippolyta, a friend of my youth, and saluted by name.

But the wind held fair through the Sporades and Cyclades, and Philonoë, grieved as she was to leave Lycia and children for the first time, could not be quarreled with.