Word: labyrinth
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Everyone associates with Knossos the old legend of the Labyrinth and its Minotaur. The atr cities of this legend however were recognized in Plutarch's day as inventions, due chiefly to Athenian patriotism, which glorified Theseus at the expense of Minos. Nevertheless, Minos is in reality the sole and genuine embodiment of the political greatness achieved in Mycenaean days, just as Daedalus, the architect of Minos, impersonates the marvellous skill in handicrafts and arts that marked the days when Minos ruled the sea. Both of them are strangely metamorphosed by many whimsical legends which bear more or less on Knossian...
Lectures on Recent Discoveries in Crete. III. Old Knossos and the Labyrinth of Minos. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. Louis Dyer, of Oxford. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...sudden collapse of the Mycenaean civilization was roughly coincident with the first appearance of iron in common use on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Mycenaean Troy was ravaged and burned, so was Mycenae itself, and so was the great Cretan Labyrinth at Knossos. Facts are not lacking even now, and will with time grow abundant, which illustrate the transition from bronze to iron in the Mediterranean basin. The fruitful beginnings of Mycenaean art and civilization in the early Bronze Age of the European Mediterranean basin were not brought there from any northern or northeastern part of the world...
Lectures on Recent Discoveries in Crete. III. Old Knossos and the Labyrinth of Minos. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Mr. Louis Dyer, of Oxford. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...