Talk:Zakros

Labyrinth

Is there really a labyrinth at Kato Zakros? I visited there in September 2011, and the only labyrinthine things I noticed were a slightly labyrinthine structure that led to a basin, and the usual lustral basins. Platon doesn't mention a labyrinth in his book Zakros: The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete either. k. da-ma-te (talk) 08:26, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

No, there is no such thing as a Bronze Age 'labyrinth'. Rodney Castleden - who is not accepted amongst Aegeanists as a serious scholar, nor has he published anything about Minoan architecture or society in peer-reviewed works - is the author whose book both sources that were cited referred to. He calls what is generally known as 'palaces' (or to Jan Driessen and Ilse Schoep as 'court-centred buildings') labyrinths. He based this on the idea that the labyrinthine construction of the palaces inspired the later myths, which is an idea that has been floating around for a while. Perhaps he was referring also to the polythyron system, whose precise use is still not yet fully known - however, there is no serious scholar talking about Bronze Age or Minoan culture that refers to any of these architectural features as 'labyrinths' therefore this does not belong in the Wiki article. I've deleted it. You're much better off following Platon as he is the general authority on Zakros and an actual scholar!131.111.233.196 (talk) 09:59, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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I rebooted it. One thing is left to do ie read the Platon book on the palace and say something more, and more coherent about the palace(s) or whatever they were. One can borrow it from archive dot org.

• Nikolaos Platon, "Zakros: The Discovery of a Lost Palace of Ancient Crete", Scribner, 1971 ISBN 978-0684311036

A few more words about the Linear A finds would also not be amiss.Ploversegg (talk) 14:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)