# The Minoans

Author: Glasgow, George, 1891-

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69765

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Minoans+Glasgow&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mr. Veniselos was brought up in Crete. It is not the first time in history that Crete has passed on her products to Greece and to Europe. Four thousand years ago the very foundations of Greek and of European civilization were laid in Crete, which was then mistress of the sea and the dominant factor in the Ægean. Yet we none of us were aware of this until Sir Arthur Evans, a few years ago, began digging in Crete. When Mr. Veniselos was a boy the very existence of a prehistoric Cretan civilization was unknown. Our knowledge of it has been almost entirely revealed since 1900. In this short time the spades of Sir Arthur Evans have revolutionized our whole conception of the early history of Eu...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8: _The Pottery](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9: _The Origin of Writing](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10: _Cretan Religion](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 7: _Minoan Architecture and Fresco Painting](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 5: _Prehistoric Engineering and Architecture](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 11: _Men and Women, Clothes and Customs](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1: _Crete the Forerunner of Greece](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4: _Knossos](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3: _Minos and the Minotaur](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 12: _From Prehistoric Crete to Classical Greece](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6: _Internal Politics: the Relations of Knossos and Phæstos](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 2: _The Sea-Faring People of Crete](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minoans-69765/chapters/2/index.md)