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| Minoan warriors with libyan prisoners in the city of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini, before a volcano blew half the island into the air. 1600 BC Bronze Age - art by Giuseppe Rava |
THOSE ARE SLAVES?
Archaeological Evidence Shows Minoans Used Violence And Were Prepared For War
Just how peace loving were the Minoans? Why did they not leave behind images of wars, battles and walls despite their contacts with other eastern peoples who were their contemporaries and who used such representations? Were the inhabitants of Minoan Crete perhaps ‟flower children” living among the lilies and passing their time with bullfights and festivities in meadows and olive groves?
‟Unfortunately this is not the case. Single city political entities evolved in Crete and at some point, Knossos seems to have dominated the whole island. States are not founded without violence, they are not established without struggles and upheavals, whether internal, within the community or external with their neighbours”, answered Greek Archaeologist Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou in her talk ‟War in the prehistoric Aegean: evidence of violence and martial readiness in Minoan Crete”, which she recently gave at the Herakleidon Museum, opening the thematic cycle of archaeological lectures on ‟War in Antiquity”, according to archaeology.wiki.
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