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n. - An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.

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  • We can follow the fatal road of other wealthy elites, like the pampered Court of Cnossos or the French nobility at Versailles, or we can use our wealth to redeem the...
  • And while he considered this, he became aware of a swift ship upon the wine-like sea in which were many men and goodly, Cretans from Cnossos 195, the city of Minos, they...
  • The starting point is Cnossos in northern Crete, where we encounter the palaces occupied by the so-called Minoans from roughly 2000 B.C. to 1450 B.C., before they gave...
  • Mr. Cartledge, a gentle guide, does not utterly destroy traditional notions that his fellow Cnossos visitors might entertain about the bull-loving King Minos and the...
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