Word: crete
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...diggers extended their trenches across the mound, they found an enormous mass of burned limestone and brickwork. It turned out to be a palace, whose plan suggested in some ways the sophisticated civilization of Knossos on the island of Crete. The diggers speculated that when Knossos was destroyed by the Mycenians (Homeric Greeks) about 1400 B.C., a Cretan architect may have escaped and plied his trade among the Arzawans...
...Invasion of Troy and dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...
...Theseus bested the Minotaur. The thesis of Gide's Theseus is that the cave of the Minotaur is seductive as well as labyrinthine, a lotus land of indolence and confusion which exists in every man's mind more surely than it ever did in ancient Crete, and that each man must sally forth from it after slaying his personal monsters of fear and convention. In his serene, neoclassic way. Gide puts a French accent on the pithy Greek maxim, "Know Thyself...
...young (31) London architect named Michael Ventris. It so happened that as a schoolboy of thirteen, Ventris heard a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans, has been fascinated by the Minoan mystery ever since. If his present solution is correct, scholars will not only have to rewrite the history of Crete, they will also have to change their ideas about the civilization of the pre-Homeric Greeks...
...site of what is believed to have been the palace of King Nestor of Pylos, one of the great, Greek-speaking Achaean heroes of the Iliad. Since the Evans and Blegen tablets were in the same Linear B script, it was obvious that Knossos on the island of Crete and Pylos on the mainland of Greece had some close connection. But scholars have long assumed that the Achaeans were illiterate, for Homer gives little real indication that his heroes could write. The tablets, concluded the scholars, were therefore probably in the unknown language of the Minoans-the work...