Knossos
The Ancients
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The Connection Between the Bronze Age Building and Mythology at Knossos
It wasn't a credible theory when Evans first proposed it. There are problems with it because the etymology doesn't seem to quite work. Labyrinth seems to be a pre-Greek word which is attested on linear B tablets from Knossos whereas labris is a much later word from a different part of the Eastern Mediterranean. The idea that it's somehow connected I think people always found a little bit speculative. It shows how Arthur Evans was very interested in connecting what he found in terms of this Bronze Age building with the mythology that went with Knossos.
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