An Early Destruction in the Mycenaean Palace at Knossos
Author: Jan Driessen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789068312577
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Author: Jan Driessen
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9789068312577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mervyn R. Popham
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 182
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. E. L. Mellersh
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781566191944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mervyn Reddaway Popham
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nikos Kazantzakis
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of the princess Ariadne and other friends in the palace at Crete, Theseus enters the Labyrinth and slays the hideous Minotaur, thus spearheading the resistance of the Athenian people against King Minos.
Author: Guy D. Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-26
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 110715149X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Author: Cathy Gere
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0226289559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans’s excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After the World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatters, the lost paradise that Evans offered in the concrete labyrinth—pacifist and matriarchal, pagan and cosmic—seemed to offer a new way forward for writers, artists, and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Graves, and Hilda Doolittle. Assembling a brilliant, talented, and eccentric cast at a moment of tremendous intellectual vitality and wrenching change, Cathy Gere paints an unforgettable portrait of the age of concrete and the birth of modernism.
Author: Erik Hallager
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodney Castleden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1134967853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century, the first excavators - Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and Arthur Evans - were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of the classical authors. Rodney Castleden argues that this line of thought was a false trail and gives an alternative insight into the labyrinth which is every bit as exciting as the traditional explanations, and one which he believes is much closer to the truth. Rejecting Evans' view of Knossos as a bronze age royal palace, Castleden puts forward alternative interpretations - that the building was a necropolis or a temple - and argues that the temple interpretation is the most satisfactory in the light of modern archaeological knowledge about Minoan Crete.