From the earliest Helladic structures, through such restless Minoan complexes as the amazing palace of Knossos, to the formal, rigorously symmetrical forms of late Helladic building, it is here possible to follow the development of Greek architecture. Almost paralleling the forms of literary expression from the energetic Homeric epic to the compact drama of Sophocles, Greek architectur can be viewed as one major aspect of an increasingly well- integrated whole.