A Political Fable
Palace of Knossos, Crete
The Bull Leap, fresco from Palace of Knossos. The
bull was of great importance to Minoan Crete, and featured largely in the
depiction of Plato's Atlantis.
Theseus slaying the Minotaur. Black-figured Greek vase. Plato tells also of a bull hunt in the Temple of Poseidon, Atlantis.