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- noun rare Bull-leaping, as depicted in Bronze Age art, especially from Minoan Crete.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ταυροκαθάψια (taurokathapsia), variant of ταυροκάθαψις (taurokathapsis), from ταῦρος (tauros, "bull") + κάθαψις (kathapsis). Apparently coined by Arthur Evans, the excavator of Knossos, in ca. 1910.
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That the sport of the bull-ring, and particularly this exciting and dangerous game of bull-grappling, or [Greek: taurokathapsia], was an established and habitual form of Minoan sport is proved by the multitude of representations of it which have survived.
The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898
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