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The Bull in Minoan Art
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The Bull in Minoan Art
Symbolic, religious & mythological significance of the bull in art & culture of Minos & early Greece.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages) |
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1997
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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss the symbolism of the bull in Minoan art. It will draw upon not only examples of Minoan art but also what is know of the religious associations of the bull in early Greek myth and religion.Surely all attempts to comprehend the symbolism of the bull in Minoan art must begin from, or at least remain cognizant of, the fresco of the "bull dancers" found in the palace at Knossos. Greek myth, conveniently summarized in Plutarch's Life of Theseus, served to preserve a memory of this complex palace; its name or description as labyrinthos, which came to mean a maze, had apparently meant the ?house of the double ax.?
The myths also portrayed the king of Crete, Minos, as a son of Europa, a princess of Phoenicia, who rode on the back of Zeus in the form of a bull to Crete, where he seduced her and fathered Minos.."
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