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Author : Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106008091909
With 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 : Chris Scarre,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195142723
A very basic introduction to Sir Arthur Evans' famous excavations at Knossos and the reconstruction work he oversaw.
Author : Anna Michailidou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, Cretan
ISBN : 960213142X
Introduction; Historical outline; Myth and tradition; History of the excavations;Minoans and Knossos; The archaeological site; Route from Herakleion to Knossos; Tour of the palace; The main features; West court - west façade; West porch - corridor of the procession - central court; South propylaeum - west magazines - piano nobile; Throne room - tripartite shrine - pillar crypts; Grand staircase - hall of the double axes - queen's hall; Upper floor of the domestic quarter - shrine of the double axes; Royal workshops and magazines - east hall; North entrance - north lustral area - theatral area; The dependencies of the palace; Art treasures from Knossos.
Author : Angelo Mosso
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : UOM:39015005361814
Author : Leonard Robert Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033813838
Author : Gerald Cadogan
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035974224
"The Cretan archaeological landscape is adorned with the ruins of several major prehistoric palaces. The Minoans began building palaces around 1900 BC to act as cultural, religious, administrative, and commercial centers for their increasingly expanding society. The Minoan palaces provided a forum for gathering and celebrations, while at the same time they offered storage for the crops, and workshops for the artists. They were built over time to occupy low hills at strategic places around the island in a manner so complex that they resembled labyrinths to outside visitors. The Minoan palaces were technologically advanced with expanded drainage systems, irrigation, aqueducts, and deep wells that provided fresh water to the inhabitants. The multi-storied palace buildings were laced with impressive interior and exterior staircases, light wells, massive columns, storage magazines, and gathering outdoor places -- the precursor to ancient theaters. The construction method consisted of rough stones and ceramic bricks connected by mortar in the interior walls, while the corners of the buildings were fashioned by sharply defined large rectangular blocks. None of the Minoan palaces unearthed to date was surrounded by defensive walls, a testament to the Minoan supremacy at sea. The Minoan palaces are Knossos, Malia, Phaistos, and Zakros."--Http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture/minoan-archi.html.
Author : Anna Michailidou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN : OCLC:13857223
Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415513200
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 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.
Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107494626
This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.
Author : J. D. S. Pendlebury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108074315
This short 1933 handbook on an archaeological wonder in Crete provides an architectural history and illustrated guide to the site.
Author : Eleni Hatzaki
Publisher : BSA Supplements
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015063191509
The Little Palace at Knossos, excavated by Evans and Mackenzie from 1905 - 10, remains the largest neo-palatial building within the Minoan town of Knossos, and to a large extent mirrors the history of the Palace itself. The present work effectively constitutes an excavation report of the LP, publishing for the first time entries from the daybooks of Evans and Mackenzie and many original excavation photographs. The volume provides an extremely detailed architectural account, supported by numerous plans and elevations. It incorporates the results of the 1995 restoration programme carried out by the 23rd Ephoreia and publishes sherd material then collected. A lengthy pottery chapter presents the LP sherd material from Evans's excavations, housed in the Stratigraphical Museum, and also complete vases in Herakleion. Clay tablets and sealings are discussed; small finds presented (many for the first time). The final chapter offers a thorough appraisal of the LP's history, and, in particular, deals with the thorny issue of 're-occupation' and the final destruction of the building in LM IIIA2 (i.e. contemporary with the Palace itself).
Author : L. R. Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987230399
Author : Anna Michailidou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : OCLC:13857223
Author : Ellen Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197527
A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.
Author : John C. McEnroe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292778399
A comprehensive, scholarly, engaging look at the meanings behind key architectural designs of ancient Minoan culture. Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others. Architecture of Minoan Crete is the first comprehensive study of the entire range of Minoan architecture—including houses, palaces, tombs, and cities—from 7000 BC to 1100 BC. John C. McEnroe synthesizes the vast literature on Minoan Crete, with particular emphasis on the important discoveries of the past twenty years, to provide an up-to-date account of Minoan architecture. His accessible writing style, skillful architectural drawings of houses and palaces, site maps, and color photographs make this book inviting for general readers and visitors to Crete, as well as scholars.