- was the home of the
Cretan School of icon painting,
which influenced El
Greco and
through him
subsequent European painting.
Cretans are
proud of their...
- "all
Cretans are liars" is "all
Cretans are honest" (a paradox) when in fact the
negation is "there
exists a
Cretan who is honest", or "not all
Cretans are...
- the
Cretans with
General Kreipe during Kreipe's abduction,
summarised the
Cretan's attitude to the
German occupation as :
Leigh Fermor: "The
Cretans are...
- late as 1967, the
Cretans and the 'local Turks' did not mix in some towns; they
continued to
speak Gr**** and
mostly married other Cretans. As of 2006[update]...
- In Gr**** mythology, the
Cretan Bull (Ancient Gr****: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with,
giving birth to the Minotaur...
- native-born
Cretans,
Christian and Muslim. It was
agreed that a new body of
Gendarmerie would be
formed and
recruited only from
Cretans. In 1889, however...
-
captured from Venetians,
despite frequent bloody uprisings by
Cretan rebels.
While the
Cretans rose
against the
Ottoman occupation during the War of Gr****...
-
terraces and dams at
Pseira in the Late
Minoan period.
Cretan cuisine included wild game:
Cretans ate wild deer, wild boar and meat from livestock. Wild...
-
Cretan hieroglyphs are a
hieroglyphic writing system used in
early Bronze Age Crete,
during the
Minoan era. They
predate Linear A by
about a century, but...
-
Persian troops, with the aid of the
Cretan archers who
formed part of the Gr****
mercenary army. On this
occasion the
Cretans, cut off from supplies, were able...
