Burrows, Ronald M.: The discoveries in Crete and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation (London, 1907)

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER IV

PAGES

THE BUILDING OF THE PALACES, AND THE GREAT

MIDDLE MINOAN PERIODS . . . 55-65

Character of the Buildings at Knossos before Middle Minoan
II.—The West Court at PhEestos built in Middle Minoan II.—
The West Wing at Knossos built in Middle Minoan III.—-
The Great Polychrome Period of Middle Minoan II.—The
Naturalism of Middle Minoan III.—Writing with Ink and
Pen.

CHAPTER V

EGYPTIAN CHRONOLOGY AND THE DATE OF THE

MIDDLE MINOAN PERIODS . . . 66-83

Middle Minoan II. and the Xllth Dynasty—The Berlin
Astronomy—The Great Gap in Egyptian History—The
Continuity of Egyptian Art—The Date of the Hagios
Onuphrios Seals—Points of Contact between Minoan and
Egyptian Art—Dr. Dorpfeld and the Phxstos Propylasa—The
Continuity of Minoan Architecture—Two Thousand Years, or
Six Hundred ?

CHAPTER VI

fHE PALACE STYLE AND THE SACK OF KNOSSOS 84-97

Late Minoan I.—The Architectural Style of Late Minoan
II.—Crete and the Mycenaean Mainland—Rapiers—False-
necked Vases—Strainers—The Date of Late Minoan I.
and II.—The Keftiu on the Tomb of Rekhmara—The Date
of the Sack of Knossos.

CHAPTER VII

THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE . . . 98-I06

Late Minoan III. and Decadence—The Age of Transition—
Bronze and Iron—Burial and Cremation—Dr. Waldstein's
Seventh-Century Theory—The Soundness of Mr. Evans's
Method.

CHAPTER VIII

THE LABYRINTH AND THE MINOTAUR . . IO7-132

The Four Labyrinths—The Double Axe as Masons'
Mark—The Religious Aspect of the Double Axe—Survivals
of Minoan Religion—Labyrinth, Laura, and Laurium—
The Termination in -nth—The Egyptian Labyrinth—Hawara,
Gurob, and the Tursha—Minoans and Etruscans—The
Minotaur and Minoan Religion—The Minotaur and the
Bull Ring—The Palace of Knossos the Labyrinth.