CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minos, Ashlar, Minoan Civilization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

One of the great islands of the world in midsea, in the wine dark sea, is crete: spacious and rich in populous, with ninety cities and a mingling of tongues and one among their ninety towns is knossos. Minos was the son of zeus and europa (phoenician princess). He married pasiphae who fell in love with a bull and gave birth to the minotaur. Minos then had daidalos build the labyrinth to house the beast. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) In the early 20th century, sir arthur evans unearthed the palace (cid:1) of knossos. The complex layout led him to believe that he had found the mythical labyrinth. This was later disproved because many of the. Palaces in crete from that time frame had very similar architecture and layouts. Ashlar masonry (stone that had been cut) Minoan architecture (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) These so called palaces were the centers of their communities.