ocr: open area. At Knossos and at Mallia bull sports may have been conducted northwest of the palace. Buildings there could have served as grandstands from which the inhabitants of the palatial town watched young athletes being tossed by the bulls. When their economic, religious and political functions are taken into account, the palaces must be considered the chief material expression of the structure of Minoan society. A useful way to elucidate that structure is to examine the palace in three progressively wider contexts: the town, the province and the world. Each palace stood at the heart of a t ...
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