He became definitively known in the British intellectual world in 1866 when he contacted authors and academics to gain their support for the Cretan cause during the Cretan Revolt of 1866-1867, for which he raised more fundraising.

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

She tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power.

" Robin Lane Fox notes that Cretan bronzes are found at Delphi from the eighth century onwards, and Cretan sculptures are dedicated as late as ca 620-600 BC: "" Dedications at the site cannot establish the identity of its priesthood ," he observes, " but for once we have an explicit text to set beside the archaeological evidence.

Both Jane Ellen Harrison and the French classicist Henri Jeanmaire have shown that both the Kouretes ( Κουρῆτες ) and Cretan Zeus ( called " the greatest kouros ( κοῦρος )" in the Cretan hymn found in an inscription at Palaikastro ) were intimately connected with the transition of young men into manhood in Cretan cities.

There have been also recordings of a Callergis family in Venice, a branch of the Cretan Kallergi family.

two sons, Tantalus and Plisthenes, and in Euripides ' Cretan Women, it may have been these children that Atreus famously fed to Thyestes.

While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy ( Diogenes Laertius i. 109 – 115 ).

Other scholars have taken the reverse position that Abellio might have been a similar solar deity of Celtic origin in Crete and the Pyrenees, but the Cretan Abellio may however not be the same god as the Celtic one, but rather a different manifestation, or dialectal form, of the Greek god Apollo or his name.

Because of a lack of written records, estimates of Cretan chronology are based on well-established Aegean and Ancient Near Eastern pottery styles, so that Cretan timelines have been made by seeking Cretan artifacts traded with other civilizations ( such as the Egyptians )-a well established occurrence.

In the same year, at the trial of the Cretan Claudius Timarchus in the senate, the defendant was alleged to have said several times that it was in his power whether the proconsul of Crete received the thanks of the province or not.

However, the diverse history of art music in Greece, which extends from the Cretan Renaissance and reaches modern times, exceeds the aims of the present article, which is, in general, limited to the presentation of the musical forms that have become synonymous to ' Greek music ' during the last few decades ; that is, the ' Greek song ' or the ' song in Greek verse '.

The Cretan king Rhadamanthus is said to have forbidden his subjects to swear by the gods, suggesting that they swear instead by the ram, the goose or the plane tree.

The Greek type used to print the 1488 – 1489 Homer is believed to have been cast by the Cretan Demetrius Damilas from the type that he had used to print Constantine Lascaris ’ Erotemata ( Milan 1476 ), the first book to be printed entirely in Greek, based upon the hand of Damilas ’ s fellow scribe Michael Apostolis.

Bowed instruments descendants of the Byzantine bowed lyra ( lūrā ) have continued to be played in post-Byzantine regions until the present day with few changes, for example the Calabrian Lira in Italy, the Cretan Lyra, the Gadulka in Bulgaria, and the Pontian lyra ( Πολίτικη λύρα ) in Istanbul, Turkey.

Five inscriptions have been found that are surely Eteocretan, two in Dreros and three in Praisos in the Cretan prefecture of Lasithi.

The Cretan bulls have been bred for the dance, and the intelligent and quick ones are used for sacrifice.

The Cretan nobles are weary of life the way it is, because things have been so easy for them.

: Epimenides was a Cretan who made one immortal statement: " All Cretans are liars.

Epimenides the Cretan said that all Cretans were liars, and all other statements made by Cretans were certainly lies.

Noting that certain names appeared only in the Cretan texts, Ventris made the inspired guess that those names applied to cities on the island.

To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.

The airport is named after Elefthérios Venizélos, the prominent Cretan political figure and Prime Minister of Greece, who made an outstanding contribution to the development of Greek aviation and the Hellenic Air Force in the 1930s.

In 1898, during the final moves towards independence and enosis — union with Greece — the Great Powers made Chania the capital of the semi-autonomous Cretan State (" Kritiki Politeia "), with Prince George of Greece, the High Commissioner of Crete living here.

The Cretan Bull which fathered the Minotaur was originally calm and sent from Poseidon, but king Minos whom it was sent to fell out of favor with Poseidon, and so in some versions of the story, Poseidon made the bull angry.

By May, the Greek forces consisted of approximately 9, 000 troops: three battalions of the 5th Division of the Hellenic Army, which had been left behind when the rest of the unit had been transferred to the mainland to oppose the German invasion ; the Cretan Gendarmerie ( a battalion-sized force ); the Heraklion Garrison Battalion, a defence battalion made up mostly of transport and logistics personnel ; and remnants of the 12th and 20th Hellenic Army divisions, which had escaped to Crete and were organised under British command.

He made a last trip to Greece in 1866, to carry relief to the Cretan refugees during the Cretan Revolution.

Styli were first used by the ancient Mesopotamians in order to write in cuneiform, Egyptians ( Middle Kingdom ), and the Minoans of Crete ( Linear A and Cretan Hieroglyphic ) made styli in various materials: reeds that grew on the sides of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and in marshes and down to Egypt where the Egyptians used styli from sliced reeds with sharp points ; bone and metal styli were also used.

The term is also used for a wide variety of non-anise-flavored brandies made from distilled pomace which are popular in the Balkans and Southern Europe: Italian grappa, Bulgarian ракия ( rakia ), Greek tsipouro, Cretan tsikoudia ( which is also known locally as raki ), Cypriot zivania, and Spanish orujo.

It features the largest natural palm forest in Europe, made up of Cretan Date Palm ( Phoenix theophrasti ).

The remains of numerous Cretan Christians were collected and placed in the windmill, which was made into a reliquary in homage to the defenders of Arkadi.

With the help of some Cretan fishermen they made their getaway, but the craft ran out of fuel and drifted for nine days before reaching the North African coast.

Today, only elderly women may be found to be fluent in Cretan Greek and only estimates can be made regarding their number.

Kydonia was constantly at war with other Cretan city-states such as Aptera, Phalasarna and Polyrrinia and was important enough for the Kydonians to be mentioned in Homer's Odyssey ( iii. 330 ).

The Cretan War begins between Philips ' Macedonians, the Aetolian League, several Cretan cities ( of which Olous and Hierapytna are the most important ) and Spartan pirates against the forces of Rhodes and later Attalus I of Pergamum, Byzantium, Cyzicus, Athens and Knossos.

The term Cretan School describes an important school of icon painting, also known as Post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the Fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

Venizelos played an important role towards this solution, not only as the leader of the Cretan rebels but also as a skilled diplomat with his frequent communication with the admirals of the Great Powers.

The term Cretan School describes an important school of icon painting, also known as Post-Byzantine art, which flourished while Crete was under Venetian rule during the late Middle Ages, reaching its climax after the Fall of Constantinople, becoming the central force in Greek painting during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.

The most reputable wines of ancient Greece were Chian, Coan, Corcyraean, Cretan, Euboean, Lesbian, Leucadian, Mendaean, Peparethan wine, Rhodian and Thasian. Wine was also important for ancient Macedonia.

Using the Cretan Exploration Fund, now being swollen by contributions from others, he paid off the debt for the land.