Ancient Aegean

The two videos on Ancient Aegean brought up the main question of how much is fiction and how much is real?In the Ancient Island of Crete video it seemed like Evans used the Minoians as therapy for himself; living in a paradise for himself, since they mentioned that war was going on at the same time he worked on this. Its like a monument of his own imagination than what it really might have been. Although I do think it was a great idea for them to recreate it so people could have a tangible visual of how it could have looked.But that does bring up what if he ruined the real work by doing this. The frescoes looked similiar to the Ancient near east and Egyptians. Also the thick lines were like the Japanese with the cartoonlike paintings. In the second video they had mentioned a maze underneath the building and they even said it could have been the inspiration to the labrinyth maze tale. That makes me wonder weather more buildings had maze in the interior? Could they have been the norm of the time? That would be an interesting way of life, getting lost all the time.