| In the absence of a tin of WD40, a glug of Cretan extra virgin olive oil is the perfect solution to a squeaky room door. |
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| The red dots of paint with which Cretan walkers have marked the way are not always easy to spot. |
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| Other Cretan agricultural products are carob beans, fava, mountain tea, broad beans, oregano and flax. |
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| The same criticism may be made about the Cretan, which has been already made about the Lacedaemonian elders. |
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| Such then are the conditions of the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan and the Carthaginian polities which have all a just and high reputation. |
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| The Erotokritos, one of the epic works of Greek literature is told and re-told in much of Cretan music. |
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| Cretan cuisine centres mainly on chicken, pork, lamb, rabbit or fish, served in a variety of non-spicy sauces. |
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| The country is bordered by Albania, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Aegean, Ionian, and Cretan seas. |
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| Cretan music has a long tradition and is played on a fixed-instrumentation lyra and two lutes. |
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| This last memorial has a notable sculpture, a heroic Cretan woman raising her hammer to chisel the names of the dead. |
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| There are many unspoiled Cretan villages where property prices are still exceedingly low. |
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| In their inimitably natural way Bratsch had roused feelings of love in us and in their many new Cretan friends. |
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| There is nothing I like more than to enjoy Greek salad with local Cretan wine by the small canal which separates the bay from the rest of the world. |
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| George Trebizond, a Cretan emigre in the curia, produced a new translation and commentary. |
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| The column made its first European appearance in the Cretan palace, where it is often employed individually to divide an entranceway. |
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| Modern usage has extended the term to other writing systems, such as Hieroglyphic Hittite, Mayan hieroglyphs, and early Cretan. |
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| Brian Glover is a hilariously beer-bellied Cretan bull, foppishly waggling his horns. |
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| Amphitryon borrowed Cephalus' invincible Cretan hound Laelaps, and Zeus changed both Laelaps and the vixen to stone. |
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| The Cretan flora is especially rich in herbal and pharmaceutical plants like oregano, thyme and labdanum. |
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| Several letters appear to be related to symbols of the Cretan and Cyprian writing systems. |
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| The heavy infantry legionnaires were supported by lighter-armed auxiliaries, such as Numidian light infantry, Cretan archers, et al. |
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| Like Daedalus, the Homeric character who built a maze for the Cretan minotaur, Wallinger is an artist. |
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| Born in Astoria, NY into a strongly Cretan heritage, he has, in recent years, become an important figure in the music of Greece. |
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| If there is one Cretan non-liar, then Epimenides's statement is simply a lie, he is a liar and there is no paradox. |
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| Exhibits fro the Byzantine, Venetian and Turkish periods and historical documents of more recent Cretan history. |
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| Other inhabitants of the island are the Cretan Ibex or Kriki, Wild Cat, Badger, Weasel and different types of Snakes. |
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| Finally, a Cretan youth was allowed only one garment, the Attic ephebe wore a black garment, and in certain mystery cults initiates were required to wear white clothing. |
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| For this purpose, Cretan elites borrowed from the Mycenaean world vessels such as the kylix, goblet, bowl, and krater in order to emphasize the moment of consumption. |
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| Cretan calamint is an amazingly versatile herb in the kitchen. |
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| The capricious god changed Ariadne into the Corona Cressa, or Cretan Diadem, already visible in the heavens in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne as an omen at their first meeting. |
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| Recent studies proposed that the Cretan detachment is a shallowly north-dipping normal fault, which formed subparallel to the subjacent subduction thrust in the Early Miocene. |
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| Cretan society is well known for notorious family and clan vendettas which persist on the island to date. |
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| The Hellenic Government has conferred decorations upon the Russian and American Consuls who were representatives of their respective countries in Crete during the Cretan War of independence. |
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| Polyrrhenia, an important ancient western Cretan city, was founded with the help of the Achaeans, who succeeded the Minoans as overlords of the island. |
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| The Greek large pelagic fleets fish mainly in the Aegean, Ionian and Cretan seas, but they occasionally extend their activities to the eastern Levantine Basin. |
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| It was a joint effort of Venetian colonists and Cretan nobles who attempted to create an independent state. |
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| The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this period of Greek literature. |
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| Let the ebullient Alma introduce you to Cretan cooking skills. |
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| Also a rich collection of folk art consisting of local costumes, textiles, wood carvings and embroidery as well as a representation of typical Cretan House. |
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| The water turned to the wine as fine as Cretan wine. |
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| A psychiatrist in a clinic treated hospitalized patients, including a case of cancer of the uterus, by a diet claimed to be of Cretan origin, which led to malnutrition. |
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| It is a real experience of the Cretan rural life. Perfectly combining the charm of originality with the leisure of today, Vilaeti houses offer you a place where you can taste the true art of living. |
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| The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. |
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| Finally you can have an original Cretan meal in a typical tavern. |
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| Nevertheless, according to Burkert, the iconography of the Cretan Palace Period has provided almost no confirmation for these theories. |
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| Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur! |
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| The most prosperous period of the Cretan civilization was Neopalatial period and most of the artefacts are from this era. |
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| A large number of artefacts from the Protopalatial can be seen today in Cretan museums. |
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| Among other instruments, he plays the Cretan lyra, Afghan rabab, lute, Constantinople lyra, sarangi, oud, saz, and the tambur. |
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| Early Cretan history is replete with legends such as those of King Minos, Theseus and the Minotaur, passed on orally via poets such as Homer. |
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| On 25 August 1898, a Turkish mob massacred hundreds of Cretan Greeks, the British Consul and 17 British soldiers. |
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| As if to clinch the point, Reid directs me to the key metaphor in the book's first sequence, The Flowers of Crete, in which the seemingly unvanquishable Cretan minotaur is a metaphor for Lucinda's indestructible sarcoma. |
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| Cretan Hound or Kritikos Lagonikos, one of Europe's oldest hunting dog breeds. |
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| The Cretan mountains and gorges are refuges for the endangered lammergeier vulture. |
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| Amphibians include the green toad, American toad, common tree frog, and the Cretan marsh frog. |
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| Ancient art often included dolphin representations, including the Cretan Minoans. |
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| Post Byzantine art schools include the Cretan School and Heptanese School. |
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| If this expertise was concentrated in Crete, then the Mycenaeans may have made political and commercial mistakes in administering the Cretan empire. |
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| In the Renaissance, Crete was the home of the Cretan School of icon painting, which influenced El Greco and through him subsequent European painting. |
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| St John the Theologian by Andreas Ritzos, example of Cretan School. |
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| Hercules, in one of his labors, took the Cretan bull to the Peloponnese. |
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| Within a matrix of demotic Greek, words from Homer, from Sappho, from the Orthodox church service, and from Cretan peasants glint like flaked mica. |
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