Curetes- cretan demons. When Rhea gave birth to Zeus, she hid the baby on a mountain in Crete to protect him from his cannibalistic father Kronos. She had the Curetes stand outside the cave and bang their shields, a sound which drowned out the infant’s cries King Minos- king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. He was the most prosperous king of the Mediterranean area. Renowned as much for his justness as his power he became one of the three judges in Hades. Minos was presumably the name or title of an ancient Cretan king Poseidon- god of the sea and protector of all waters, according to Greek mythology Diodorus of Sicily- greek historian (90-21 BC). Born in Agyrium, Sicily, he traveled in Asia and Europe and lived for a long time in Rome, collecting the material for his great work ‘’Bibliotheca Historica’’. It is the history of the world in 40 books, from the creation through the Gallic wars and up to the first years of the empire. From this ambitious work, considerable fragments have been preserved Ammon- egyptian deity. Originally the chief god of Thebes, he grew into the supreme deity in Egypt. He wqs identified with the Greek Zeus Sir Arthur Evans- english archaeologist (1851-1941). From 1900 to 1935 he conducted excavations on the island of Crete, principally at Knossos, where he uncovered the remains of the previously unknown Minoan Civilisation