MYTH AND COINS-ANCIENT COINS CITY OF CRETE (500 BC - 67 BC)

COINS Knossos

Currency Knossos third century. BC, and King Minos's daughter Ariadne (Herakleion Museum)

Minos, according to Plato (Minos and Laws), Thucydides A 3 - 10), Homer (Iliad and Odyssey), Diodorus and others, was the organizer of the state and the founder of the maritime force of Cretans. Simply put, Minos was not only was Greek, but was the first Greek ("This first of the Greeks) who first introduced laws - why, indeed, the Greeks called the great Greek legislator and posthumously proclaimed arbiter Hades of the Greeks - and other established navies (and thus is the founder of Greek Navy) and I was expelled from the Cyclades and the Greek seas (Aegean Archipelago and the Mediterranean Sea) and the bandits pirates, Cares and Phoenicians, freed the sea lanes from the thugs, etc. consistently made himself maritime force and corridors to be released so the Greeks can communicate, collaborate, engage in naval operations, to enrich, to prevail, to stop the migration life (ie a permanent and safe home - home, etc.) who oblige the offenders "Kares and Phoenicians. So Minos is the reason there is a culture and Greece.

This is the reason that have molded so many myths surrounding the name with the result that the excesses of legends, many now believe that it existed.

Coin of Knossos, 2nd. BC, with Zeus in the form of a bull to kidnap Europe, Mother of King Minos, on the one side and the other chart corridors of the Labyrinth

Drachma Knossos third century. BC, with the bride Hera (Hera married Zeus in Crete,as we are informed by Diodorus Siculus), and chart the labyrinth where the Minotaurlived

Silver tetradrachm Knossos, 400 to 350 BC, and Juno chart corridors Labyrinth

Silver didrachm Knossos with Hera and layout of the corridors of the Labyrinth

Knossos Silver stater, 350-280 BC Juno and the layout of the corridors of the Labyrinth

Silver tetradrachm of King Minos of Knossos, with head and chart paths Labyrinth

Knossos Tetradrachm with head and chart new routes Labyrinth swastika

Currency Knossos, 200 to 67 BC, Jupiter and Minos and eagle writes KYDAS

Knossos Silver stater, 300-280 BC, head back and maze

Knossos Silver stater, 300-280 BC, head back and labyrinth (swastika)

Silver tetradrachm Knossos, 300 to 270 BC, head of Apollo? and graph corridorsLabyrinth

Currency Knossos 400 to 350 BC, head of Apollo, Minos enthroned on a maze?

Currency Knossos, 4os century. BC with Hera and Zeus

Knossos Silver Tetradrachm, 300-280 BC, Hera and Demeter and chart pathsLabyrinth

Didrachm 500/431 BC, Demeter, Hera and Labyrinth - Swastika

Silver tetradrachm (peer side is didrachm) Knossos, 300 to 270 BC, Hera, Demeterand plan routes Labyrinth swastika

Didrachm Knossos, 2nd. BC, with Zeus in the form of a bull to kidnap Europe and chartlabyrinth where the Minotaur lived

Currency Knossos 4/3os century. BC, with Zeus in the form of a bull to kidnap Europe,Mother of King Minos, on the one side and the other chart corridors of the Labyrinth

Stater Knossos, 500 - 400 BC, by Minotaur and Labyrinth swastika

Silver stater, 360 to 320 BC
In Minotaur and Labyrinth

Knossos Silver coin (425 - 330 BC)
In Minotaur and Ariadne in the Labyrinth

Silver stater of Knossos, around 425 BC, Minotaur, Labyrinth, the emblem of the city