| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 205 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The legendary Knossos -- 2. The discovery of the labyrinth -- 3. Arthur Evans and the 1900 dig at Knossos -- 4. The neolithic and pre-palace periods at Knossos -- 5. The bronze age palace : Sir Arthur Evans' interpretation -- 6. Wunderlich's 'Palace of the dead' -- 7. The temple of the goddesses -- 8. Beyond the labyrinth walls -- 9. The lady of the labyrinth -- 10. The bull dance -- 11. The Thera eruption -- 12. The fall of the labyrinth -- 13. The journey of the soul |
| Summary |
Knossos, 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 Show moreauthors. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Palace of Knossos (Knossos)
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Palace of Knossos (Knossos) fast |
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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Antiquities
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Knossos (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072723
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Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942
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Greece -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
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Greece
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Greece -- Crete
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Greece -- Knossos (Extinct city)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203405005 |
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9780203405000 |
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058545261X |
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9780585452616 |
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9780415033152 |
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0415033152 |
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9780415513203 |
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0415513200 |
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9781134967810 |
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1134967810 |
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9781134967858 |
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1134967853 |
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9781134967865 |
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1134967861 |
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128004604X |
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9781280046049 |
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