A Vision of the Past

[…] During an attack of fever, having found, for the sake of better air, a temporary lodging in the room below the inspection tower that has been erected on the neighboring edge of the Central Court, and tempted in the warm moonlight to look down the staircase-well, the whole place seemed to awake awhile to life and movement. Such was the force of the illusion that the Priest-King with his plumed lily crown, great ladies, tightly girdled, flounced and corseted, long-stoled priests, and, after them, a retinue of elegant but sinewy youths –as if the Cup-bearer and his fellows had stepped down from the walls –passed and repassed on the flights below.

"The palace of Minos, Vol. III", Sir Arthur Evans, page 301