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Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside Gibraltar which sent "gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks" to the lush court of King Solomon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unsinkable Atlantis | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Crete Underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...stupidity, and cupidity, culled throughout the world by an impressively multifarious staff. . . . But the one truly great event of the week-indeed, of the entire postwar period so far-is not even mentioned. I refer, of course, to the magnificent gesture of the survivors of the heroic Underground of Crete . . . who, by refusing Allied compensations almost to a man, gave to us all the privilege of holding our heads a little higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Mother. It was not surprising that The Goddess of Crete (known variously as the Triple Goddess, the Earth Mother, the Snake Goddess-see cut) was the hit of the show: she had a long, ancient history of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods and Men | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Panzer divisions pushed into Yugoslavia (Wavell's men, fresh from beating the Italians at El Agheila, made a gallant but hopeless attempt at rescue; three weeks later they were fleeing from the beaches of Greece, seven weeks later half the survivors were exterminated in the island of Crete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rise & Fall of the Wehrmacht | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

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