Minoan fresco of bull-leaper 1450-1400 BCE

"The Pythia answered them, “Foolish men, was not the grief enough which Minos sent upon your people for the help given to Menelaus, out of anger that those others would not help to avenge his death at Camicus, while you helped them to avenge the stealing of that woman from Sparta by a barbarian?” When this was brought to the ears of the Cretans, they would have nothing to do with aiding the Greeks."

-Herodotus, The Histories: Book 7, Chapter 169.2

Minoan fresco of bull-leaper 1450-1400 BCE. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Source:

http://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/browse-9148/per_page/50/offset/150/sort_by/random/start/-850/end/-2/object/75949

 

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D169%3Asection%3D2