{"id":70655,"date":"2021-12-18T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70655"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:47:47","slug":"history-summarized-minoan-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/12\/18\/history-summarized-minoan-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"History Summarized: Minoan Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C0jl8hyaG0Q\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Overly Sarcastic Productions<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Dec 2021<\/p>\n<p>The classical Greeks weren&#8217;t the first kids on the Aegean block. Long before Athens&#8217; golden age, before Homer, and even before the Trojan War, there was a civilization on the island of Krete. The land of King Minos was home to beautiful palaces, a fascinatingly-complex economy, and something approximating Bull-Cthulu. It&#8217;s a fun time, let&#8217;s jump in.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCES &#038; Further Reading: <em>The Greeks: An Illustrated History<\/em> by Diane Cline for National Geographic, <em>The Greeks: A Global History<\/em> by Roderick Beaton, Lectures from The Great Courses Plus \u2014 &#8220;Being Minoan and Mycenaean&#8221; from <em>The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World<\/em> by Robert Garland, and &#8220;Minoan Crete&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Schliemann &#038; Mycenae&#8221; from <em>Ancient Greek Civilization<\/em> by Jeremy McInerney. 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