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γνῶθι σεαυτόν, y'all. But can you really know yourself without knowing which Minoan palace best represents your *true* personality?

Which Minoan Palace Are You?

What do you think a lustral basin is?

What would appear in your window of appearances?

What do you use your Horns of Consecration for?

Which dance do you do down your West Courtyard?

What do you keep in your kouloures?

What caused the Protopalatial destruction?

How will future archaeologists misinterpret your palatial remains?

You think you're a big deal because you've got more gypsum than a gypsy and all those fancy reconstructed columns-- but everyone knows that you'd be just another Minoan palace without Sir Arthur Evans and his illegal concrete. Royal road? More like royal mess!

Knossos

Hot shit in the Protopalatial, but you peaked early-- couldn't cut it in the fast paced, high stakes Neopalatial world. A lonely burn out, you cling to your outdated rock crystal pommel sword and refuse to rebuild your Northwest corner... like a college freshman still wearing his high school letterman. (P.S. what's with the rock sphere in your courtyard? We're so over it.)

Malia

Lying along the Libyan Sea, you're the Southern Belle of Minoan palaces! Prim, well-dressed, and never without a sweet tea or gin gimlet to offer your guests at the bull-leaping party. You're proud of who you are and eager to let you're Neopalatial colors fly! ...And rumor has it that you're a lady in the paved flagstone streets, but a \*snake goddess\* between the sheets.

Phaistos

You're Zakros, and you need to get your shit together. What happened to your Middle Minoan III phase? Why do you need all that ritual repository space? How many lustral basins does one palace need? Please. Calm your horns, or they'll never get consecrated!

Zakros

You're Gournia... but who are you \*really\*? Are you even a palace?? The most angsty of the Minoan settlements, for all your extensive excavations, you're just not sure about yourself in this big, wide MMIII-LMIB world. Worried about whether your central courtyard will ever develop, sometimes you wish this whole Neopalatial period would just end already.

Gournia

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