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Definition of Cnossos
1. Noun. An ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cnossos
Literary usage of Cnossos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Crete by Robert Pashley (1837)
"MARRIAGE OF ZEUS AND HERE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF cnossos. VESTIGES OF cnossos AT
... COINS OF cnossos. March 3, THE population of ..."
2. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos by British School at Athens, Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1904)
"This remarkable piece of evidence tends to show that a system of linear writing
closely resembling that of cnossos existed in ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"At cnossos there are Neolithic remains as old or older than any of the ...
This cnossos was not so much a town as the vast palace of the king and his people ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1893)
"While the former building is the most conspicuous representation of the archaic
city of cnossos, the latter belongs to the later Roman city. ..."
5. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1907)
"There would be no great siege in any case, since cnossos and ... Dr. Evans actually
doubts whether the sack of cnossos was the ..."
6. A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor by John Murray (Firm), John Murray (1845)
"Among the distinguished men of cnossos were, Ctesiphon, ... which may » The
natural caverns and excavated sepulchres in the neighbourhood of cnossos, ..."
7. A Handbook for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor by John Murray (Firm) (1840)
"... the distinguished men of cnossos sively Turkish in its character, and i were,
... in the neighbourhood of cnossos, neral among the ladies of ancient ..."
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