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Knossos - Myth, History and Archaeology (Paperback)
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Knossos - Myth, History and Archaeology (Paperback)
Series: Archaeological Histories
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Knossos is one of the most important sites in the ancient
Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements on the
island of Crete from the Neolithic until the late Roman times, but
aside from its size it held a place of particular significance in
the mythological imagination of Greece and Rome as the seat of King
Minos, the location of the Labyrinth and the home of the Minotaur.
Sir Arthur Evans’ discovery of ‘the Palace of Minos’ has
indelibly associated Knossos in the modern mind with the ‘lost’
civilisation of Bronze Age Crete. The allure of this ‘lost
civilisation’, together with the considerable achievements of
‘Minoan’ artists and craftspeople, remain a major attraction
both to scholars and to others outside the academic world as a
bastion of a romantic approach to the past. In this volume, James
Whitley provides an up-to-date guide to the site and its function
from the Neolithic until the present day. This study includes a
re-appraisal Bronze Age palatial society, as well as an exploration
of the history of Knossos in the archaeological imagination. In
doing so he takes a critical look at the guiding assumptions of
Evans and others, reconstructing how and why the received view of
this ancient settlement has evolved from the Iron Age up to the
modern era.
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