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Sir A. Evans (in
white) watches the
restoration of the
Grand Staircase of
Knossos Palace. Ο
σερ A. Evans (με το
άσπρο κοστούμι)
στην αναστήλωση
του Μεγάλου
Κλιμακοστασίου του
ανακτόρου.

The capital of King Minos’s kingdom was
built on the hill of Kefala amongst tall
cypresses, olive trees and vineyards. The
king’s palace stands on the hill, from where
it could overlook the surrounding land
and sea. It was from that very sea that the
white bull sent by the god Poseidon arrived
to grant power to King Minos. And when
he violated his promise and kept the bull
WATCH THE VIDEO in his stables instead of sacrificing it to the
god, Poseidon punished him by making
Queen Pasiphae fall so much in love with
the animal, that she convinced Daedalus to
make a hollow decoy cow to fool the bull
into mating with her. The offspring of this
ill-matched union was the horrid Minotaur
– a monster with the body of a man and the
head of a bull – for which Athenians were

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