Minoan

Minoan may refer to the following:

  • Minoan, having to do with King Minos
  • Minoan civilization
    • Minoan, the script known as Linear A
    • Minoan pottery
    • Minoan eruption
    • Minoan chronology
    • Minoan seal-stones
    • Minoan religion
    • Minoan Modi, a peak sanctuary in eastern Crete
    • Minoan Bull-leaper, a bronze in the British Museum
  • Cypro-Minoan syllabary, a script used on Cyprus
  • Minoan, the (undeciphered) Eteocretan language
  • Minoan, an old name for the Mycenean language before it was deciphered and discovered to be a form of Greek
  • Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Daba, ancient Egyptian frescos in Minoan style
  • Minoa, name of several bronze-age settlements in the Aegean.
  • Minoan Lines, a Greek ferry company
  • Minoan Air, a Greek airline

Famous quotes containing the word minoan:

    The Minoan Snake Goddess is flanked by a Chardin still-life, somber
    and tranquil, and by Mohammedan angels
    brilliantly clothed and with multicolored wings....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)