Ancient Greeks did not know their Minoan predecessors as “Minoan”, but rather used a term “Eteocretans”, meaning “true Cretans”.
In this video, we talk about the memory that the ancient Greeks preserved about pre-Mycenaean Crete, which was in Greek mythology represented through Crete’s eponymous ruler – king Kres.
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