title: Greek Myths (The Legendary Past)
author:  Lucilla Burn 
description: Lucilla Burn is a curator in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum, where she specializes in Greek painted vases and terracottas. She lectures widely and has published books, articles, and reviews on various aspects of classical archaeology.
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  MYTHS OF CRETE AND PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE
  
  
  [PREFACE](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-HELLENIC_split_001.html#filepos4536)
  
  [INTRODUCTION](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-
  HELLENIC_split_001.html#filepos13626)
  
  [CHAPTER I. Primitive Europeans of the Glacial and
  
  
  Inter-glacial Periods
  
  [CHAPTER II. Palæolithic Magic and Religion](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-
  HELLENIC_split_002.html#filepos131263)
  
  [CHAPTER III. Ancient Peoples of the Goddess
  Cult](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-HELLENIC_split_002.html#filepos178118)
  
  
  [CHAPTER IV. History in Myth and
  
  
  Legend--Schliemann's Discoveries
  
  [CHAPTER V. Crete as the Lost Atlantis](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-
  HELLENIC_split_002.html#filepos265224)
  
  [CHAPTER VI. The Great Palace of Knossos](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-
  HELLENIC_split_003.html#filepos300381)
  
  [CHAPTER VII. Races and Myths of Neolithic
  Crete](MYTHS%20OF%20CRETE%20AND%20PRE-HELLENIC_split_003.html#filepos354679)
  
  
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