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The Minoans

Chapter 16: INDEX
By George Glasgow
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A concise popular account recounts the archaeological uncovering of an advanced Bronze Age society on Crete, outlining its maritime reach, palace-centered administration, and distinctive material culture. It surveys major excavations and architectural features, including complex palaces and early engineering, and describes artistic achievements such as wall paintings and decorated pottery. The narrative examines the emergence of local scripts, religious beliefs, and social customs, considers political relations among Cretan centers, and traces cultural continuities leading toward later Greek developments. Recent discoveries and interpretive questions are presented accessibly, with pointers for readers who wish to pursue specialist studies.

INDEX

  • Achæans, 90, 91, 92
  • Ægean People, 20
  • Ægean Sea, 27
  • Ægeus, King, 27
  • Androgeos, 27
  • Architecture, 48-54
  • Ariadne, 27, 37
  • Babylonia, 16
  • Baths, 51;
  • or chapels, 51, 52
  • Bosanquet, Professor R. C., 73
  • Bronze Age, 21, 49, 54
  • Bull in Minoan worship, 78
  • Bull leaping, 35
  • Burial rights, 79-82
  • Burrows, Dr. Ronald Montagu, 8, 9, 22, 33, 39, 43, 46, 51, 52
  • Chapels (or baths?), 51, 52
  • Clay tablets, 33
  • Command of the Seas, 47
  • Commerce, 24, 26
  • Conway, Professor R. S., 10, 74
  • Cornwall, 21
  • Craniology, 84
  • Cretan race, physical characteristics, 83
  • Cupbearer, 14, 39
  • Dædalus, 28, 37
  • Dancing place, 35
  • Dark Ages, 15, 16, 23, 92
  • Dating, 24;
  • Egyptian equations, 25
  • Delos, 29
  • “Discovery,” 8
  • Dog’s Leg Corridor, 41
  • Dorians, 91, 92
  • Double Axe, 78
  • Drainage, 42
  • Dress, 86
  • Dromos, 80
  • Dussaud, M., 46
  • Fortifications, 30, 31
  • Fresco-painting, 53
  • Hagia Triada, 50, 52
  • Halbherr (Dr.), 14
  • Hall, E. H., 54
  • Hall, H. R., 31, 45, 91
  • Hall of Colonnades, 41
  • Hall of Double Axes, 41
  • Hawes, C. H. & H. B., 38, 45
  • Heaton, Noel, 34, 53
  • Herodotus, 26, 89
  • Hissarlik, 17
  • Hogarth (Mr.), 76
  • Homer, 15, 20, 22, 30, 40, 55, 67, 91, 92
  • Horses, 87
  • Kamares Pottery, 61
  • Kingsley, Charles, 14
  • Knossos, 13, 14, 15, 20, 22, 28;
  • palace, 30-43;
  • relations with Phæstos, 44-47;
  • main drain, 50
  • Labyrinth, 27, 29, 37
  • Lang, Andrew, 67
  • Lighting arrangements, 41, 52, 53
  • Lime plaster, 53
  • Lycia, 68, 89
  • Mackenzie, Dr., 42, 58
  • Mediterranean race, 86
  • Minoan earthquake, 32
  • Minoan Empire, 27, 28, 30
  • Minoan Libraries, 33
  • Minoan Periods, 21, 22
  • Minos, 26, 37;
  • Supreme Judge, 40, 43
  • Minotaur, 27
  • Mosso, Angelo, 21, 49, 51
  • Mycenæ, 18, 30
  • Mycenæan civilization, 18, 90
  • Myres, Professor, 61, 84
  • National Home Reading Magazine, 8
  • Nomenclature, 22
  • Obsidian, 26
  • Palace style, 32
  • Palaikastro, 48, 54
  • Pernier, Dr. L., 48
  • Phæstos, 13, 20, 21;
  • relations with Knossos, 44-47, 52
  • Phæstos Disc, 14
  • Philistines, 28
  • Phœnicia, 85
  • Pottery, 21, 25;
  • firing furnace and potter’s wheel, 26, 55-64;
  • value of in archæology, 55;
  • for purposes of dating, 57;
  • Stone Age, 58;
  • Bronze Age, 59;
  • polishing, 58;
  • paint, 59;
  • kiln, 59;
  • wheel, 60;
  • Kamares, 61;
  • “trickle” ornament, 62;
  • lily vase, 62;
  • naturalism, 64;
  • octopus vase, 64;
  • hardware, 64
  • Pylos, 9
  • Queen’s Megaron, 41
  • Religion, 75, 82;
  • Mother Goddess, 75;
  • Velchanos, 75, 76;
  • mortality of gods, 76, 77;
  • temples, 77;
  • family shrines, 77;
  • cult objects, 78, 79;
  • double axe, 78;
  • horns of consecration, 79;
  • tombs and form of burial, 79-82;
  • tholos, 80;
  • pit-cave, 80;
  • pot burial, 81;
  • graves, 81;
  • cremation, 81
  • Rhitsona, 9
  • Ridgeway, Sir William, 87, 88
  • Theatre, 35
  • Tholos tomb, 80
  • Throne room, 39, 52
  • Thucydides, 9, 26
  • Tiryns, 18, 30
  • Tomb of the double axes, 81
  • Trojan war, 91
  • Tylissos, 52, 53
  • Veniselos, 13
  • Vrokastro, 54
  • War equipment, 86
  • Water supply, 42, 50, 51
  • Women, 88, 89
  • Wood, Use of in building, 49
  • Workrooms of palace, 43
  • Writing, origin of, 65-74;
  • clay tablets, 68;
  • pictographs, 69;
  • hieroglyphs, 70;
  • determinatives, 71;
  • linear script, 71;
  • pen and ink, 72;
  • inventories, 72, 73;
  • numerals, 73;
  • Præsos inscription, 73