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 promise of our free society.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Sixties] Reference

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 who do sacrifice to the prince and announce his decrees, whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

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 way to the Greek-speaking Mycenaeans, who remained there for about 200 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta] Reference

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 magnificence of the palaces imagined by the 19th-century British excavator and fantasist Arthur Evans.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Trouble in Athens Meant Sparta] Reference

Epimenides of Cnossos was born of the loves of a mortal and a nymph.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin 1920] Reference

Mesopotamian commodities are identified with cylindrical seals and stone seals are found in Cnossos on Crete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patent Baristas] Reference

For do you understand my whole attentions, my whole endeavours were to keep poor dear Florence on to topics like the finds at Cnossos and the mental spirituality of Walter Pater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

It may be that it requires a stretch of the imagination to compare the palace of Cnossos with Troy, but nevertheless there are one or two features that seem not unlike the discoveries made by Dr. Schliemann on that famous site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference

He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave New World]

Notably so, it seems to me, are the traces of the final fire, which are to be seen at Cnossos as at Troy, and the huge jars, which may be compared with the receptacles the Trojan excavators unearthed, and found still to contain dried peas and other things that the Trojans left behind when they fled from their sacked and burning city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference

Ithaca, and even far south to the great island of Crete of the hundred cities, where Idomeneus ruled in Cnossos; Idomeneus, whose ruined palace may still be seen with the throne of the king, and pictures painted on the walls, and the King's own draught-board of gold and silver, and hundreds of tablets of clay, on which are written the lists of royal treasures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities] Reference

474 – 501) Then far-working Apollo answered then and said: ‘Strangers who once dwelt about wooded Cnossos but now shall return no more each to his loved city and fair house and dear wife; here shall you keep my rich temple that is honoured by many men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference