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Minoan art is often described as having a fantastical or ecstatic quality, with figures rendered in a manner suggesting motion. Little is known about the structure of Minoan society. Minoan art contains no unambiguous depiction of a monarch, and textual evidence suggests they may have had some other form of governance.
The inhabitants of Crete were named Minoans by Arthur Evans, after the legendary king. [citation needed] It seems that the Minoans travelled from Crete down to Egypt, Syria and Mari of Euphrates, to Asia Minor and the Black Sea through the Aegean islands, [5] and to the west up to Lipari (Aeolian islands) to the north of Sicily. [6]
The Minoan language is the language (or languages) of the ancient Minoan civilization of Crete written in the Cretan hieroglyphs and later in the Linear A syllabary. As the Cretan hieroglyphs are undeciphered and Linear A only partly deciphered, the Minoan language is unknown and unclassified.
The bishops of Gortyn continued to call themselves bishops of Knossos until the nineteenth century. [22] The diocese was abolished in 1831. [21] During the ninth century AD the local population shifted to the new town of Chandax (modern Heraklion). By the thirteenth century, it was called the Makruteikhos 'Long Wall'.
Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars have reconstructed it almost totally on the basis of archaeological evidence such as Minoan paintings , statuettes, vessels for rituals and seals and rings .
These people, called Minoans by Arthur Evans, were extremely influential at sea: Around the sixteenth century the Minoan influence on the mainland becomes very marked. During this floruit, the House of Lilies was occupied. Minoan civilization is not believed to have been warlike; there are few traces of arms and armor.
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By Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son called Euxanthius. [13] By Androgeneia of Phaistos, he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians. [14] Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, [15] and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros. [16]