Identifier: palacesofcreteth00moss (find matches)
Title: The palaces of Crete and their builders
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910
Subjects: Palaces
Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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own in Fig. 16) to the balcony tolook at the view and to make a few notes in my pocket-book.Mount Ida rises above the sea like a great dome, and blue rocksfringe her snow-clad sides. The outline of these mountains difi^ers little from thatof the Apennines, but the blue colour is more intense inCrete. Between the ridges the slopes fade in the distancetill the blue blends with the grey of the sky. The villageslook like eagles nests perched on the cliffs, each girt round witha garland of olives, they too shading into blue. Above, themountain becomes sterile and bare ; below, we see patches of Ferdinand Noack, Homerische Palastc, Leipzig, 1903. THE PALACE OF PH.EST OS 57 yellow field among the willows and planes in the shady windingsof the river Geros Potamos, Before the sun sets the shadows in the ravines of MountIda deepen into indigo, and the rocks of the whole chainbecome violet—-an optical phenomenon rarely seen in theAlps.I The poets of classic Greece alluded to this violet colour
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FIG. 19. FIG. 20. K.AMARES VASES FOUXD IX THE .MAG.^ZIXES OF THE MOST AXCIEXT PALACE AT PH^STOS. in the mountains round Athens. In Italy only the shadowsbecome violet, but here in Crete the rocks are violet. I look on the neighbouring hills covered with barley andwheat, and reflect that for centuries before Hellenic civilisationthis hill presented the same aspect of cultivated land. When It is perhaps the effect of polarised light, but I had not a Nicols prismwith me to trv. 58 PALACES OF CRETE AAW THEIR BUILDERS the Hegemony was lost and the palace destroyed, Phasstos wasabandoned. The walls crumbled away, and in their dust grewthe lichens and brushwood. When the Greeks again builthouses and temples all trace of the Mycen^an constructionsmust have been lost, for the original orientation was changed andthe foundations were built in the newer stratum of the fields.Yet the Hellenic structures are of so remote a period that whenthey were built history had not yet begun. VIII. Near the gr

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