The Minoan Genius is a legendary creature that was common in the Minoan art of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization in ancient Crete. It is portrayed sometimes...

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...

Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization...

localities, Taweret also became an integral part of Minoan religion in Crete, where it is known as the Minoan Genius. Like in Egypt, her image was featured most...

The comparable Roman concept is the genius who accompanies and protects a person or presides over a place (see genius loci). A distorted view of Homer's...

Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete. In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars...

nature. In the earliest Minoan conceptions the "Master of the animals" is depicted between lions and daimons (Minoan Genius). Sometimes "potnia theron"...

popular, and were portrayed in various media. A similar creature is the Minoan Genius. In the Hindu religion, Garuda is a large bird-like creature that serves...

Eileithuia, the Homeric goddess of child-birth. Representations of the "Minoan Genius" are widely found in the continental parts of Mycenaean Greece. There...

"The Walk" Jonah (1917), collection of 12 poems: "Jonah", "Behemoth", "Minoan Porcelain", "Zoo Celeste", "Sonnet a l'Ingenue", "Dix-Huitieme Siecle",...

Minoan Language, essay article in American Journal of Archaeology XLIV/4 October–December 1940. Ventris, Michael (1950). The languages of the Minoan and...

familial inferiors to their superiors. Every head of household embodied the genius – the generative principle and guardian spirit – of his ancestors, which...

Peloponnese. Its artwork has been suggested to have been inspired by that of Minoan Crete and of Ancient Egypt. Little is known of the persons who might have...

Wright, Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol 7 July 2011 The Minoan Civilisation John Bennet, Professor of Aegean Archaeology at Sheffield University...

In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary...

millennium BC (c. 1400 – c. 1150 BC) who had trading relationships with the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations in the Aegean Sea, and, at the end of the Bronze...

a daimon the occurrence of a horse becoming or being startled. For the Minoan (3000-1100 BC) and Mycenaean (1500-1100 BC), "daimons" were seen as attendants...

commercially in Crete and may have been the source of the wealth of the Minoan civilization. The ancestry of the cultivated olive is unknown. Fossil olea...

of a stolen artifact. Planning to trigger a massive earthquake with the Minoan Trident in Yellowstone, she later fails to follow through when Myka Bering...

Ancient Iran (Elam, Media, Persia): Zoroastrianism Cyprus, Crete (Minoan civilization): Minoan religion Crete (and Mainland Greece) (Mycenaean Greece): Mycenaean...

of Seven Ages of Britain (2003 TV series) documentary series 2004 The Minoans Channel 4 Part of The Ancient World documentary series 2005 When the Moors...

The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, beginning in Minoan and later in Mycenaean Greece, continuing most notably into Classical Greece...

scale the traditional Roman veneration of the ancestral dead and of the Genius, the divine tutelary of every individual. The Imperial cult became one of...

"largus et exundans ingenii fons" (a large and overflowing fountain of genius), and he inspired Cicero's speeches against Mark Antony, also called the...

BasicBooks. p. 109. ISBN 0-465-02997-3. Newquist, HP (1994). The Brain Makers: Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think. New York: Macmillan/SAMS...

Martin P. Nilsson has argued that the cult in Rhodes has its roots to the Minoan, pre-Greek era, when Helen was allegedly worshiped as a vegetation goddess...

Ancient Thracian Dacian Nuragic Aegean Cycladic Minoan Minyan ware Mycenaean Greek Sub-Mycenaean Protogeometric Geometric Orientalizing Archaic Black-figure...

Norbert Guterman. New York: Harry N. Abrams. Fine, Gary Alan (2004). Everyday genius: self-taught art and the culture of authenticity. Chicago, IL: University...

J. Buchan, Crowded with Genius (London: Harper Collins, 2003), ISBN 0-06-055888-1, p. 311. J. Buchan, Crowded with Genius (London: Harper Collins, 2003)...

stargazer, but does not like pipers, and is the cook of the ship. Daedalus – A Minoan blacksmith who forges armor and weapons for Jason when he is fighting in...