Cnossos

The starting point is Cnossos in northern Crete, where we encounter the palaces occupied by the so-called Minoans from roughly 2000 B.C. to 1450 B.C., before they gave way to the Greek-speaking Mycenaeans, who remained there for about 200 years.

When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta 2010

Mr. Cartledge, a gentle guide, does not utterly destroy traditional notions that his fellow Cnossos visitors might entertain about the bull-loving King Minos and the magnificence of the palaces imagined by the 19th-century British excavator and fantasist Arthur Evans.

When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta 2010

And while he considered this, he became aware of a swift ship upon the wine-like sea in which were many men and goodly, Cretans from Cnossos 195, the city of Minos, they who do sacrifice to the prince and announce his decrees, whatsoever

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

On a Linear B tablet from Cnossos either a stallion or a bull is named a3-wo-ro, probably “Piebald” or “Roan” from his colour cf. alphaiota 252 note.

languagehat.com: SUDA/SUIDAS. 2004

We can follow the fatal road of other wealthy elites, like the pampered Court of Cnossos or the French nobility at Versailles, or we can use our wealth to redeem the promise of our free society ....

India and the Sixties 1960

And while he considered this, he became aware of a swift ship upon the wine-like sea in which were many men and goodly, Cretans from Cnossos [2510], the city of Minos, they who do sacrifice to the prince and announce his decrees, whatsoever Phoebus Apollo, bearer of the golden blade, speaks in answer from his laurel tree below the dells of Parnassus.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

For do you understand my whole attentions, my whole endeavours were to keep poor dear Florence on to topics like the finds at Cnossos and the mental spirituality of Walter Pater.

The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

Notably so, it seems to me, are the traces of the final fire, which are to be seen at Cnossos as at Troy, and the huge jars, which may be compared with the receptacles the Trojan excavators unearthed, and found still to contain dried peas and other things that the Trojans left behind when they fled from their sacked and burning city.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

The ruins [of the Cnossos palace] lie at the east of the high road, in a deep valley.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885