POST 1,100: Knossos, Queen’s Megaron restored, Third Palace, Late Minoan IIIb (ca. 1450 BCE) Post 1 of 3:
There is only one building on the site of the ruins of Knossos which has been fully restored, and that is the so-called magnificent “Queen’s Megaron”. It is an edifice of startling beauty, and contains the first known throne in any ancient palace in Europe.
The Throne Room is adorned with stunning frescoes of griffins, as illustrated here:
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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