This Hellenic culture is named Minoan for King Minos, a legendary ruler in Greek mythology who kept a half-bull, half-human monster, the Minotaur, in a labyrinth in his palace at Greek Knossos (Knosos).
Formerly, a few scholars, mainly expressing their anti-Greek feelings, claimed that Minoans were not related to the Greeks, but the most recent linguistic research on Cretan languageMinoans were the ppl that were govenered by Greek king Minos
It wasnt a distinct nation
The term Minoans didnt even xst in ancient yrs
It was 1st applied by Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans after his excavation in Crete in order to describe this period of Greek history in Crete USING KINGs MINOS name
THEIR TESTIMONIES WRITTEN IN PROTOGREEK LINEAR TEXT B, mixed with some of greek letters which modern Greeks still use
WHICH WAS DECIPHERED IN 1952 ,PROVED THEIR GREEKNES.