The legend of King Minos takes place in Ancient Greece, on the island of Crete. In this legend, a beast with the head of a bull and the body of a man, called a Minotaur, roams a labyrinth and eats those who enter. King Minos reigned on Crete after the King of Athens killed his son. Minos demanded every nine years, seven young men and seven young women from Athens would go to the palace at Knossos. The young people would go into the labyrinth to be eaten by the Minotaur. One of the people sent into the Labyrinth was a young man named Theseus. He was in love with the daughter of Minos, Ariadne. She gave him a spool of thread so he would be able to retrace his steps and make it safely out of the Labyrinth. Theseus did just that, and killed the …show more content…
King Minos had absolute authority. Archaeologists still aren’t sure if there was one king named Minos, or if that was a name given to all kings. There were four main social classes in the Minoan Civilization. They were as follows: the King, nobles and landlords, peasants, and slaves. The occupations of the people of Knossos included trading, agricultural pursuits, and pottery and luxury item makers. Because the location of Knossos was close to the sea, Minoans did a lot of over-seas trading. There was apparent trade with mainland Greece, Cyprus, Syria, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Spain. Pottery was mainly traded. Most of the population did agricultural jobs, but a small class of people mad luxury items and pottery. The typical housing for Minoan people was a four-bedroom villa. The house had a wooden frame, most likely used to protect against earthquakes. Surrounding the wooden framework was stone and brick. There were two stories, a ground floor and a level above that. The second level had windows, while the ground floor did not, to protect against burglary. There was a small room located on the roof, ideal for sleeping in when the weather was warm. Different classes of people had different sizes of houses. Many upper class citizens had large, elaborately decorated homes with many bedrooms, and lower class citizens had small, cramped houses with fewer bedrooms. Men and women in ancient Greece did not live together, …show more content…
Cereal, mainly wheat and barley, was the main food. For most people, their diet consisted of this cereal, olive oil, and wine. The more wealthy people could afford more exotic food for events like dinner parties. Food was eaten with fingers, and there were special slaves to clean the hands of the person eating. There were three main meals of the day. Ariston was eaten after sunrise. Deipon was the main meal, eaten in the middle of the day, and dorpon, which was eaten in the evening. Men and women would eat separately, because they had their independent living quarters. Food that was available for Minoans included fish, shellfish, birds, olives and olive oil, bread, maza (which is a past made with lentils and beans), cheese, eggs, pork, mutton, goat, and goat yogurt and