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	CNOSSUS - LoveToKnow Article on CNOSSUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The locality was associated with a number of the most interesting legends of Greek mythology, particularly with those which related to Jupiter, who was said to have been born, to have been married, and to have been buried in the vicinity.
		Cnossus was also assigned as the site of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined.
		Aenesidemus, the sceptic philosopher, and Chersiphron, the architect of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, were natives of Cnossus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CN/CNOSSUS.htm (797 words)

	The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age, U. of S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The palace at Cnossus clearly was an important political seat, but it was also an administrative and industrial center, as the vast storerooms, copious amounts of raw materials, and numerous workshops indicate.
		The arrival in Europe of the "Greeks" (that is, the people who brought with them the rudiments of the language and culture that we associate with historical Greece) is identified by the gradual appearance (c.
		In the mid-1950s an architect and amateur linguist by the name of Michael Ventris demonstrated that the Linear B tablets were written in a form of Greek —; a discovery that seemed to demonstrate conclusively that the kings of Pylos, Mycenae, etc. were not foreign overlords (like the Normans in 11th century England) but Greeks.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/CourseNotes/HomBA.html (3202 words)

	CNOSSUS - Online Information article about CNOSSUS
		Cnossus was also assigned as the site of the See also:
		Roman dominion, Cnossus shared the same See also:
		The Site.—As the excavations at Cnossus are discussed at length in the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CLI_COM/CNOSSUS.html (1262 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dionysius
		Dionysius is only known to use through Eusebius, for St. Jerome (De viris ill., xxvii) has used no other authority.
		Eusebius knew a collection of seven of the "Catholic Letters to the Churches" of Dionysius, together with a letter to him from Pinytus, Bishop of Cnossus, and a private letter of spiritual advice to a lady named Chrysophora, who had written to him.
		Eusebius first mentions a letter to the Lacedaemonians, teaching orthodoxy, and enjoining peace and union.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05010a.htm (627 words)

	Cnossus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Cnossus * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
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		"People, Places and Things: Cnossus", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Cnossus_1.html (216 words)

	EN_206_Theseus
		Minos left his kingdom once every eight years (the Great Year), and retreated to a cave where he conversed with his father, Zeus.
		Consequently, it is possible that the Athenian tribute was a human sacrifice, a substitute for the sacred king who was in the cave.
		It is also possible that the young female and male acrobats in the frescoes on the walls of the palace at Cnossus were human sacrifices.
	www.comfsm.fm /~crgood/Mythology/EN206_Theseus.htm (4173 words)

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