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Mr. Stylianos Alexiou, professor emeritus of the University of Crete, ex-Curator General of Antiquities, is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, member of the Archaeological Society, the German Institute, and honorary professor of the University of Padova and Cyprus. He discovered the late Minoan cemetery at the harbour town or Knossos, and the early Minoan vaulted tombs at Lebena (Leda). He is credited with the creation of a new wing at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, as well as with the Hall of the Giamalakis' collection. He also established the museum...

Minoan Crete is a place in which a great many elements of European civilisation appear for the first time, with architectural monuments that are unique in area, volume, wealth and history; international trade relations with all the known peoples of the world at that time, especially ancient Egypt, where there is abundant evidence of the Keftiu who have been identified as Cretans; a religion manifest in every expression of daily life; love of nature confirmed, inter alia, by the presence of the plant, marine and animal worlds in works of art; respect for the human being demo...

In "Ippias Meizon", Platon, shows Socrates as the opposite of the sophists and the orators, that is, his daemonious-luck (tyche) pushed him to continuous research (289e). So the research character of study of Plato's philosophy was based on, is the same with what we could like to work with, in these workshops. We will be directed in our research not only towards the external knowledge we are going to acquire, but using this knowledge, to get to know ourselves better and understand the aims of the school. One of the positive things of the research attitude, is that it puts...

High on a hill and controlling the plain of the Mesara - the largest and most fertile plain on Crete - from one end to the other, stands the Palace of Phaestos, the second most important palace of the Minoan world after Knossos and one of the four magnificent palaces of Crete. The Palace of Phaestos was discovered during excavations conducted by the Italian Archaeological School in 1900, immediately after the proclamation of the "Cretan State". The first head of the School was the archaeologist Federico Halbherr, who was subsequently succeeded by Luigi Pernier and after the...

A new guidebook to Phaistos and the other archeological sites of south-central Crete is by no means redundant. All the monuments of the Mesara are first-class and testify to the importance of the area throughout history. There has not been a new guide to these monuments for over a decade, while more recent excavations, investigations, studies and publications have added a wealth of information. [...] (from the foreword of the book)