MUSIC V. PAPATHANASIOU
PALACE OF KNOSOS
Õ Poet Homer in the epic ILIAD (Iliad B 645 ² 652,
Odyssey t 178 - 183) reports that Crete had 100 or
90 cities, but report only these : Knossos, the
capital of Crete, Gortys, Phaestos, Lyctos,
Miletos, and Rhytio.
Õ Knossos was the capitol, the largest, the
most important and the most famous-
glorious city of ancient Crete - in the
Minoan civilization.
Õ Knossos was built by Minoas, in order to
become the seat of the Common (United)
Cretan State.
Õ The ancient Cretan was Greeks. Poet Homer in the epic
ILIAD (B 402 È 405 etc) reports that in the Trojan War
all
cities of Crete: Knossos, Gortyna etc. fought on the side of
the Achaeans or Argoees or Danaeans or Panhellenes and
the leader of all men from the Cretan cities (all men of
Knossus, Gortyna, etc.) or the leader of all nations (states)
that existed in Crete (= Eteokrites, Kydones, Achaeans,
Pelasgeans and Dorians) was Idomeneus,
Õ Idomeneus was the grandson of Minoas and also one of
the top leaders of all Achaeans or Argoeans or Danaeans
or Panhellenes.
Õ Therefore, Minoas and the residents of Crete during his
reign (Kydones, Eteokrites, Achaeans, etc.) were Greeks,
part of the Panhellenes.
Õ In addition, the ancient writers clearly report that the
Minoans were Greeks:
" The first residents of Karpathos were those that
campaigned with Minoas, during the period in which he
became the first Greek mariner and sea-governor ,
(Diodorus Sikeliotis, 5, 54).
MINOAS, COIN OF KNOSSOS, 300 b.C.
 According to ancient writers:
Õ Crete was initially inhabited by the so called Idaioe
Dactyloes or Couretaes (or Eteocretans).
Õ SEVERAL GENERATIONS LATER (AFTER CATACLYSMOS OF
DEYKALYON AND SPECIFICALLY WHEN CRETHEAS WAS KING
OF THE ETEOCRETANS) CERTAIN SECTS (RACES) OF
ACHAEANS, PELASGEANS AND DORIANS UNDER THE
LEADERSHIP OF TEKTAMOS (THE SON OF DOROS WHO WAS
THE SON OF HELLENE AND MINOA·S GRANDFATHER) LEFT FROM
OLYMPUS AND OSSA (DORIDA) ARRIVED IN CRETE, WHICH
HAD MEANWHILE SUFFERED HUGE DESOLATION.
THE DORIANS SETTLED IN THE EASTERN PART, THE KYDONIANS
IN THE WESTERN, THE ETEOCRETANS IN THE SOUTHERN PART
AND THE REMAINING OTHERS IN THE INTERIOR OF THE
ISLAND.
Õ ALSO CAME TO CRETE FROM ARKADIA, PELOPONNESUS (AND
THUS GORTYNA OF PELOPONNESUS AND CRETE) THE SO
CALLED "KYDONIANS".
Õ THE CITIES KYDONIA, GORTYNA AND KATREA OF CRETE,
ACCORDING TO PLATO AND PAUSANIAS, WERE BUILT BY THE
SONS OF LYKAONA, KING OF ARCADIA AND GORTYNIA IN
PELOPONNESE.
Õ When Minoas became king of Dorians, with the help of his brother
Radamanthys, united (joined) all the cities and all races of Crete
(Eteocretans, Kydonians, Pelasgoeans, Achaeans and Dorians) into a
single totally comprehensive unit,
Õ and organized in a highly unusual way for this period in history the
institutions of the State, the eminent Cretan State (or otherwise
"Confederation of the Cretans")
Õ which subsequently was copied by all Greeks and thus they became
civilized.
Õ Three generations after the death of Minoas the Trojan
War
started .
Õ In this war (according to the Pario Chronicle 1228 - 1218
B.C), all Cretans under the leadership of Idomeneas, the
grandson of Minoas, fought on the side of the Argoeans or
Achaeans or Danaeans or Panhellenes and for that reason
they were named after the end of the war Greeks/Hellenes.
DRAHMA OF CNOSSOS, SVASTICA, 300 b.C.
DRAHMA OF CNOSSOS WITH HERA AND LAVYRINT, , 300 b.C.
ACCORDING TO THE PARIO CHRONICLE,
MINOAS WAS REIGNED IN 1470 B.C.
Õ The king Minoas, accorging to Greek Mythology, was sons of Zeus
and Europa, daughter of the king of Phoenicia, and adopted sons of
Cretan king Asterius..
Õ The ancient writer Diodoros (Book 1,.94,.5, 78-79), Arrian
(Alexander·s Anavasjs 2 29), Strabo (Geographic's I, C 481 - 483,.17 -
20), Herodotus (A 2 -5) etc, report that old legislators and kings,
such as the Greek Minoas, the Egyptian Mneyis, the Greek Alexander
the Great etc were claiming that they were sons of god, for obvious
and intelligible reasons, that is to say in order that the people
respect the laws or their orders.
Õ The truth is that because the laws of Minoas and Radamanthus were
not according to their personal opinions, as had been done until
then by kings, but relative to divine orders (that is to say they were
relative to a set of morals and religious sentiment), Minoas and
Radamanthus were deified,
Õ that is to say, after their death were declared same with gods, sons
of god Zeus and judges at Hades (the underworld), something similar
to Alexander the Great, Constantine the Great, etc.
Õ Minoan civilization is the earliest culture not only in Europe, but in
all world.
Õ The ancient writers: Plato (Laws, Minos), Plutarch (Lycurgus 4-7,
Solon 12 - 20), D. Laertjos (Epjmenidis), Isokratis (Panathinaikos
205), Aristotle (Politics B, 1271, 10), Strabo (Geographic's I, IV, C 481 -
483,.17 - 20), Herodotus (A 65), and others., report that:
Õ 1) Minoas and his brother Radamanthus were the first to create the
correct ingenious institutions and laws in Greece. Specifically they
were the first to conceive and enact social institutions(= public
mess, community of property, etc. = the ancestor of communism)
and political institutions (= the constitution, parliament, tax
collectors and deputies, representatives or senators, etc.) for the
correct (right), fair equality before the state, equal treatment before
the law and the uniform common (public) order of governing of all
Cretansp
Õ 2) Prior to the age of Minoas, in Greece and the rest of the world
there did not exist any governing institutions, such as
constitutions, Parliaments, deputies, tax collection methods,
state of concern, equal justice under the law, etc. , but each leader
(head of a tribe or tyrant or king) established laws for his
population depending upon his own wishes and perception.
Õ Each king had in fact whatever wanted and the rest of the people
very little or nothing at all; and, no one dared to voice their
opinions or objections, and they were worshipped as gods and
many times asked for human sacrifices, unethical and corrupt
practices etc.
Õ Indeed, these reasons were also the cause, that:
a) The Spartans declared that laws other than those
enacted by Minoas were ridiculous and absurd to imitate
or copy.
Õ b) The Jews were saying that if the world does not change,
then God will destroy the world,
Õ c) The ancient Greeks do not report any other singular,
important ancient culture other than the Minoan
Õ According to ancient writers Pausanias (Iliaka), Strabo
(Geographic 10), Diodoros (Bible 4 and 5) etc, Initially Cretans
were named ËIdaioi dactyls or ËCouretes (ƋƯƵƱƞƴƥƲ).
Õ Consequently the name ËƋƱƞƴƥƲ = Cretans, emanated from the
name C(ou)retans
Õ C(ou)retes was the young Cretans peoples (Couroi) who
nourished ( curried) the Jupiter. From those c(ou)retans named
after all Cretans.
C(OY)RETAS - Ƌ(Ɛƕ)ƒƈƔƂƓ -
ƋƒƈƔƂƓ, ƔƐƊƗƐƄƒƂƖƊƂ
ƋƎƙƓƐƕ
 Ƌ(Ɛƕ)ƒƈƔƂƓ - ƋƒƈƔƂƓ
ƆƊƅƙƌƊƐ (ƍƐƕƓƆƊƐ ƈƒƂƋƌƆƊƐƕ)
Knossos, Linear script 1800 ² 15oo BC
LINEAR A· 15o ctr BC.
 DIDRACMO PHAISTOS, 300 ư.Ɨ.
WITH TALOS ANT TAURE, FOTHER OF MINOTAURE
DISC OF PHAISTOS, 17ƯƲ BC.
Alphabet script, Minoan codex,
Gortyna 5 century B.C.
The ancient cities Gortyna, Kydonia and katrea of Crete,
according Pausanias (VIII, 53, 3-4) and Platon (ƎƼƬƯƩ
ƅ, 708) , was built by the sons (Gortys, Kydon and
Katera) of Lykaona, the King of Arcadia and Gortynia
of Peloponnese.
After the destruction of Crete by the Romans, Gortyna
became the capital of Crete.
Subsequently all Cretan cities including Gortyna
were radically destroyed by the Sarakians. They were
liberated by Nikiforos Fokas.
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Õ The anti-Greek say that the Minoan civilization (culture) even though
might be the first created, that it was not a Greek creation and that it
was destroyed by a tsunami caused by the volcano eruption in Thera
(Santorini), which absolutely is false, created due to their jealousy,
dishonesty and corruption, because:
Õ 1) There are not such myth or such tales of ancient writers
Õ 2) If Crete had been destroyed by the explosion of the volcano in Thera
(Santorin), that event is a very serious issue and would have been
reported by Poseidonius, the ancient writer who witnessed and
described the explosion of the volcano in Thera (Santorini), and which
subsequently has been authenticated and preserved by writer
Stravon. Poseidonius reports as follows:
Õ Thera established a colony in Kyrene. Between Thera and Therasia flames
rose from the sea and this phenomenon continued for 4 days, in such a
horrific way that the entire sea was boiling and was ablaze.
Õ The flames gradually and slowly brought to the surface an island that
looked like it was formed from unified red-hot mass and had a perimeter of
12 stages.
Õ As soon as this phenomenon stopped, the first people that dared to
approach the place were the then sea-farers Rodioj, who built on the
island the sacred temple of Asfalios Poseidonµ
Õ (Poseidonjus, ALL A 14-15 and Stravon·s, Geographics A, III 16).
Õ 3) The Minoan Civilization (Culture), as we will see below,
not only was not destroyed, but that it was copied by all the
other Greeks who sent experts to Crete to study and learn
this culture, and reciprocating by inviting to their own
cities experts from Crete to teach them.

Õ 4) Minoas and the Cretans during the period of his reign (=

Minoites), as we will also see below, were sects (races) of
the so called Achaeans or Pan Hellenes, hence Greeks.
700 bC
 Coin of Cretan city Raucos, 300 bC.
with the god of sea, Poseidon (Neptune)
ÕThucydides (A, 4 - 8), Plato (Laws D, 706, b), Stravon
(Geographics 10), Isocrates (Panathinaikos), Diodorus
(Book 5, 84) and others report that Minoas was the first
Greek to organize, create and implement a martial
(marine) naval force and with it pursued and drove out
from the Aegean Sea the criminal Kares and Phoenicians,
who had conquered and occupied the islands in Aegean
sea.
ÕThus, the Cretans became the first to control the sea,
open the marine corridors and enable the Greeks to deal
and work with marine activities, prosper and gain wealth,
sea-fare, further develop their marine capabilities,
commute amongst all Greeks, Prevail etc.
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Island Thera
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 Õ TODAY ONCE AGAIN THE GREEKS
ARE SEAFARING (SEA DOMINANS)

Õ Today the Greek owned merchant marine (ships

under Greek and foreign flag), according to data
from the Ministry of Merchant Marine, once
again comprises the first commercial shipping
fleet in the world with an estimated (15.5% of the
world
s shipping capacity).
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