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.