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Toggle Ancient subsection. 1.1 Mythology. 1.2 Dorian. 1.2.1 Archaic era. ... The following is a list of people from the island of Crete in southern Greece. Ancient
Ancient Cretans (7 C, 3 P) Artists from Crete (3 C, 2 P) F. ... Pages in category "People from Crete" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Crete was the centre of Europe's most ancient civilization, the Minoans. Tablets inscribed in Linear A have been found in numerous sites in Crete, and a few in the Aegean islands. The Minoans established themselves in many islands besides Ancient Crete : secure identifications of Minoan off-island sites include Kea , Kythera , Milos , Rhodes ...
Although stone-tool evidence suggests that hominins may have reached Crete as early as 130,000 years ago, evidence for the first anatomically modern human presence dates to 10,000–12,000 YBP. [15] [16] The oldest evidence of modern human habitation on Crete is pre-ceramic Neolithic farming-community remains which date to about 7000 BC. [17]
The myth of the Minotaur tells that Theseus, a prince from Athens, whose father was an ancient Greek king named Aegeus, the basis for the name of the Greek sea (the Aegean Sea), sailed to Crete, where he was forced to fight a terrible creature called the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a half man, half bull, and was kept in the Labyrinth – a ...
Gortyn, Gortys or Gortyna (Greek: Γόρτυν, Γόρτυς, or Γόρτυνα, pronounced) is a municipality, and an archaeological site, on the Mediterranean island of Crete 45 km (28 mi) away from the island's capital, Heraklion.
The revolution of 1897–1898 opened the door to wider knowledge, and much exploration has ensued, for which see Crete. [6] Thus the "Aegean Area" has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia. Evidence is still wanting for the Macedonian and Thracian coasts.
A similar belief existed in the ancient Mesopotamians and Semites, and appears also in Hindu mythology. [17] The Pelasgian myth of creation refers to snakes as the reborn dead. [ 18 ] However, Martin P. Nilsson noticed that in the Minoan religion the snake was the protector of the house, [ 16 ] as it later appears also in Greek religion . [ 19 ]