Cycladic

American  

[si-klad-ik, sahy-] / sɪˈklæd ɪk, saɪ- /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Cyclades.

2. of or relating to the Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades, c3000–c1100 b.c.

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Cycladic British  

/ sɪˈklædɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Cyclades or their inhabitants

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Etymology

Origin of Cycladic

First recorded in 1910–15; Cyclad(es) + -ic

Example Sentences

Other important works include the Roman “Lansdowne Herakles,” which dates to about AD 175, and the Cycladic “Male Harp Player,” 2700–2300 BC.

From Los Angeles Times

On the country’s Cycladic islands, local residents joined forces with the authorities to push back against a wave of construction.

From New York Times

The willowy single-stem and single-variety displays that the Connecticut-based ceramic artist Frances Palmer, 67, creates with the flowers she picks from her garden in warmer months — pairing them with her elegant pottery, often inspired by ancient Etruscan and Cycladic forms — are dramatically simple.

From New York Times

All 161 works were made in the Cyclades, a group of small islands in the Aegean Sea east of Greece between roughly 5300 B.C., or the late Neolithic period, and 2300 B.C., the beginning of the Bronze Age, a span of time also referred to as Early Cycladic I and II. The figures especially are among humanity’s greatest achievements, grave and cool yet instantly familiar and even essentially realistic, like skeletons.

From New York Times

They were collected starting in the early 1980s by Leonard A. Stern, chief executive of Hartz Mountain Industries, who as a teenager was enthralled by the Cycladic art at the Met.

From New York Times