The Sea-Kings of Crete

The Sea-Kings of Crete, by
James Baikie

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[Illustration I: THE THRONE OF MINOS (p. 72)]

THE SEA-KINGS

OF CRETE
BY REV. JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S.
WITH 32 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1913

TO MY SISTERS AND MY BROTHERS

PREFACE
The object aimed at in the following pages has been to offer to the
general reader a plain account of the wonderful investigations which
have revolutionized all ideas as to the antiquity and the level of the
earliest European culture, and to endeavour to make intelligible the
bearing and significance of the results of these investigations. In the
hope that the extraordinary resurrection of the first European
civilization may appeal to a more extended constituency than that of
professed students of ancient origins, the book has been kept as free as
possible from technicalities and the discussion of controverted points;
and throughout I have endeavoured to write for those who, while from
their school days they have loved the noble and romantic story of
Ancient Greece, have been denied the opportunity of a more thorough
study of it than comes within the limits of an ordinary education.
In the first chapter this standpoint may seem to have been unduly
emphasized, and the retelling of the ancient legends may be accounted
mere surplusage. Such, no doubt, it will be to some readers, but perhaps
they may be balanced by others whose recollection of the great stories

of Classic Greece has grown a little faint with the lapse of years, and
who are not unwilling to have it prompted again. Reference to the
legends was in any case unavoidable, since one of the most remarkable
results of the explorations has been the disclosure of the solid basis of
historic fact on which they rested; and, if the book was to accomplish
its purpose for the readers for whom it was designed, reference seemed
almost necessarily to involve retelling.
I have to acknowledge extensive obligations to the writings and reports
of the various investigators who have accomplished so wonderful a
resurrection of this ancient world. My debt to the works of Dr. A. J.
Evans will be manifest to all who have any acquaintance with the
subject; but to such authors as Mrs. H. B. Hawes, Dr. Mackenzie,
Professors Burrows, Murray, and Browne, and Messrs. D. G. Hogarth
and H. R. Hall, to name only a few among many, my obligations are
only less than to the acknowledged chief of Cretan explorers.
To the Rev. James Kennedy, D.D., librarian of the New College,
Edinburgh, and to the Rev. C. J. M. Middleton, M.A., Crailing, my
thanks are due for invaluable help afforded in the collection of material,
and I have been not less indebted to Mr. A. Brown, Galashiels, and to
Messrs. C. H. Brown and C. R. A. Howden, Edinburgh, and others, for
their assistance in the preparation of the illustrations. To Mr. A. Brown
in particular are due plates II., III., IV., V., IX., X., XV., XVI., XX.,
XXIII., XXIV., and XXV.; and to Messrs. C. H. Brown and C. R. A.
Howden Plates I., VII., VIII., XI., XII., XVII. (I), and XXI. I have to
record my hearty thanks to the Council of the Society for the Promotion
of Hellenic Studies for the use of Plates XXIX. and XXX., reproduced
by their permission from the Journal of Hellenic Studies; to the
Committee of the British School at Athens for the use of Plate XIX.
and the plan of Knossos from their Annual; and to Dr. A. J. Evans and
Mr. John Murray for Plates VI., XIII., and XIV., from the Monthly
Review, March, 1901. For the redrawing and adaptation of the plan of
Knossos I am indebted to Mr. H. Baikie, B.Sc., Edinburgh, and for the
sketch-map of Crete to my wife.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
THE LEGENDS
CHAPTER II
THE HOMERIC CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER III
SCHLIEMANN AND HIS WORK
CHAPTER IV
THE PALACE OF 'BROAD KNOSSOS'
CHAPTER V
THE PALACE OF 'BROAD KNOSSOS'--continued
CHAPTER VI
PHÆSTOS, HAGIA TRIADA, AND EASTERN CRETE
CHAPTER VII
CRETE AND EGYPT
CHAPTER VIII
THE DESTROYERS
CHAPTER IX
THE PERIODS OF MINOAN CULTURE

CHAPTER X
LIFE UNDER THE SEA-KINGS
CHAPTER XI
LETTERS AND RELIGION
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY