SERENA: Serena hello and Festus are coming from the twenty-first century. Can I ask you questions about Cretan society?
SERENA: I studied in my history books that you're Cretan mo lto good at pottery making, I say good party?
FESTO : Certainly, we are very good with pottery. I work in this small shop at your back. Here are the ceramic works and see how many beautiful works that we have produced. For example I've created a small jar that I gave to my mother after I can see you.
SERENA : ok thanks Festo. As I read my book I have read "between Crete had
more valuable timber resources and his land was suitable for the cultivation of vines and olive trees and was practiced 's breeding sheep; is correct that reported?
FESTO : Serena is your good book says. Crete was rich in olive groves and vineyards. My parents live in a small house that has a stall where we raise sheep from which we get good milk and wool for winter
SERENA : wow! What other goods you produce Cretan?
FESTO : Cretan we also manufacture textiles, ceramics and metal objects, and this production has led us to a major technological development Cretan
SERENA : good because here in this shop, I see many fabrics are dyed different colors as bring so much joy!!
FESTO : if you remember me after so I can give the owner of a clothes shop is my friend
SERENA: I thank you very much Fausto I would be very happy. Now I want to talk about something I was very impressed by visiting your city: palaces "
FESTO : Beautiful is not it? All the buildings are residential and the island of Crete for us is the center of social life
SERENA : Strong! Give great importance to your buildings here because they are so beautiful. This beautiful building is very colorful I also would like to have a building like that.
FESTO : Why you in your company does not have buildings like this?
SERENA : Festo perhaps, our all buildings are painted in the same way and I do not like so much. Do you have a building more important than others?
FESTO : sure that building there, the palace of Knossos which occupies an area of \u200b\u200b10,000 square meters
SERENA : great is if we go in that building there we lose, am I right?
FESTO : sure, and I tell you one thing ... even when I was little I got lost many times in that building because, as a child, I was a curious child ... Speaking in this palace there are warehouse-store
SERENA: I-storage warehouses, now I remember you, my book talks about this and I remember the phrase, "archaeologists have discovered a large number of warehouses that contained large-storage jars for oil grain and other foodstuffs.
SERENA: I'm sorry Fausto what does the word "taurocatapsia?
FAUSTO : the taurocatapsia is an activity recreational-sports, or consists of a voltage which is taken on a bull by the horns. E 'is practiced by women from men.
SERENA: It the Minotaur, but who is this be! FAUSTO : The Minotaur is a figure from Greek mythology . He's a monster and fierce, half man half bull . He was the son of Toro of Crete and Pasiphae queen of Crete . Its proper name is Asterio Asterion.
SERENA: I read the book the name Minos. Who is this character?
FAUSTO : Minos was a character of Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Europe. Minos was just and wise king of Crete . For this reason, after his death, he became one of the judges of the underworld, along with Aiakos and Rhadamanthus . In the myths penthouses instead depicted as a character extremely cruel.
FESTO : Hey wait I have to give something. Here this is a small ritual pitcher made by me and this rather is the stuff I promised you will witness your travel
SERENA : Thanks, how nice. Festo Hello.
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