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The Minoans

INDEX

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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

Egypt, 16

Evans, Sir Arthur, 7, 10, 13, 19, 29, 31, 32, 38, 42, 50, 52, 65, 67, 71, 73, 81

Fortifications, 30, 31

Fresco-painting, 53

Gournia, 54

Great staircase, 40, 41, 42, 50

Grote, 17

Grundy, Dr., 9

Gypsum, 49, 51, 52

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

Iron Age, 54, 81

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

Schliemann, 17, 18, 19, 22

Socrates, 29

Spencer, Herbert, 89

Sphacteria, 9

Stone Age, 20, 44, 48, 57

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

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