By the time of the Minoan civilisation, the gap between civilised/urban and natural/wild had in human minds become an abyss. From this, and from a new, domineering social force driven by patriarchy, a desire to display and celebrate human superiority over nature emerged. In Knossos, that wish to show off took a spectacular form.
The athletes who dared to…
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