Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 3): The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the Palace (London, 1930)

WHERE WAS THE ANCIENT DANCING PLACE?

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merited by the natural features of the site. In this respect the arrangement,
as far as we can judge, was much less artificial than the associations of the
arena devoted to the bull-grappling and other sports, as illustrated by the

Fig. 43. Old Olive-trees beneath East Palace Slope.

Grand Stands and Columnar Shrine of the companion piece. Here at most
we see a low isodomic wall bordering the orchestra, and another apparently
running diagonally from it, while the top of a third wall appears in one place
above the spectators. The dancing floor itself may on the other hand have
been well paved. That it was placed in the immediate neighbourhood of
the great Palace may be reasonably assumed, and an ideal location for it
may well be found on the river fiat overlooked, above an intervening bank,
by the Eastern walls of the Palace. On the borders of this, again, a little