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Definition of Minoan culture
1. Noun. The bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC.
Generic synonyms: Civilisation, Civilization, Culture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minoan Culture
Literary usage of Minoan culture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"minoan culture under its mainland aspect left its traces on the Acropolis at
Athens,—a corroboraron of the tradition which ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1904)
"ARTHUR J. EVAN'S, D.Litt., FRS—Preliminary Scheme for the Classification and
approximate Chronology of minoan culture in Crete ..."
3. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"It is the first time that we have properly represented at Knossos this preliminar^'
phase of the great minoan culture, the importance of which has been ..."
4. Vignaud Pamphlets. Crete (1905)
"Much new light has recently been thrown on the history of the mainland branch of
the minoan culture at Mycenae by the supplementary researches made under ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"But it is clear that some vanguard at least of the Aryan Greek immigrants came
into contact with this high minoan culture at a time when it was still in its ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"Chronology of the Periods of minoan culture in Crete, from the close of the
Neolithic to t/ie Early Iron Age. By ARTHUR J. EVANS, DCL, FRS The accumulated ..."
7. Explorations in the Island of Mochlos by Richard B. Seager (1912)
"... if not impossible, to assign any dates to the various phases of minoan culture.
Even now the dates of the Early Minoan period are rather uncertain, ..."
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