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Last week in the U.S. quarterly Archaeology, a plausible solution came from an amateur: a 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...
...Leading Paris designers will create gowns of the Minoan period (the film's setting), and Seventh Avenue will turn them out to be sold by 600 stores through the length and breadth of the land. (Says Condon: "We've got more on Minoan culture than Arnold Toynbee...
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...
...liveliest sculpture in the show, a bronze athlete somersaulting onto a bull's broad back (1600 B.C., see cut), reminded some visitors of the Minotaur legend. In the labyrinthine palace at Knossos was a bull ring where Minoan youths and maidens displayed their superiority to the sacred beasts. Captives from abroad probably proved with their lives that it was not really so simple to go up against an angry bull barehanded...
...very image of a Picasso is to be found in the sharp profile and facial forms on a Minoan statuette...