Mike and I boarded an Aegean Airlines flight this morning at 11:15 am to fly to Crete. The flight was only 34 minutes. Our plane landed on a landing strip about 50 feet onto a cliff, so all of our descent was right above the Crete Sea...kinda freaky! I thought we were making a water landing.
We toured the Knossos Palace this afternoon and Mike made a good observation - it's very similar to Mycenae. This similarity has lead some to believe that the the people communicated with each other and were related. The landscape was similar (dry and dusty) and the construction of the building bears a resemblance (rock buildings, no marble like other places).
Why Crete? Well, Crete is where Theseus defeated the Minotaur in a courageous act to save the fourteen youths that his father, King Aegeus, was forced to sacrifice to it each year. Crete is also the home of the Minoans, one of the first great civilizations. The Knossos Palace was once home to the Minoans as well as the location for the Minotaur's great labyrinth. I was privileged to visit Knossos Palace, so according to mythology, I walked where the Minotaur lived and where it was eventually killed by Theseus!! Crete is a gold mine of Greek mythology!
Unfortunately, archaeologists are not sure what all the ruins used to be so as I wandered around Knossos Palace I had to imagine what things "may" have been.
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