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Minoan, a. and n.|mɪˈnəʊən, maɪn-|
[f. L. Mīnōs (Gr. Μίνως), the name of a legendary king of Crete + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to ancient Crete, spec. to the Bronze Age civilization extending from the early part of the third to the end of the second millennium b.c., or to its people, culture, or language; also, to this civilization (or aspects of it) discovered elsewhere in the Aegean area.
B. n.
a. An inhabitant of Minoan Crete or other parts of the Minoan world.
b. The language or scripts associated with the Minoan civilization. Hence Miˌnoaniˈzation; Miˈnoanized, Miˈnoanizing adjs.
The precise chronology of the successive phases and of the collapse of Minoan civilization is highly controversial.
1894A. J. Evans in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. XIV. 367 At a time when ‘Minoan’ Crete and Mycenaean Greece had..evolved independent systems of writing. 1902Nature 20 Nov. 58/1 The dominion of the proud Minoan thalassocrats disappeared. Ibid., The hieroglyphic of their tutelary deity may have been used by the Minoans as a sort of heraldic device. 1904Ibid. 15 Sept. 482/2 It was this faïence that the Minoan potters imitated. 1921Spectator 5 Mar. 293/1 A hanging lamp..with a yellow and orange shade with a sort of Minoan design on it in orange, terracotta, and black. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 308/1 He makes free use of his belief that the language of the Minoan script is Greek. 1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iv. 230 The Minoanization of the Mainland. Ibid., Though superficially Minoanized, the mainland still kept a good deal of its native culture and taste. 1950G. E. Daniel 100 Yrs. Archaeol. vi. 195 Perhaps a bill of lading in Egyptian and Minoan. Ibid., It seems likely that the language of the Minoans was Anatolian. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 38 The strongly Minoanizing régime of LH II. 1956Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. LXXVI. 1 Documents in the script known as ‘Minoan Linear B’ were unearthed at Knossos in Crete over fifty years ago. 1966C. H. Gordon (title) Evidence for the Minoan language. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 149/1 ‘Minoan’ is strictly a cultural term. Surviving bones show that the Bronze Age Cretans were a racially mixed group. 1970Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 1060/2 A Minoan colony of pre-eruption days [at Thera] is being excavated. |