Knossos

Author : Anna Michailidou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art, Cretan
ISBN : 960213142X

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Knossos by Anna Michailidou Pdf

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 : Cathy Gere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226289557

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere Pdf

In 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 : Chris Scarre,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780190207755

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The Palace of Minos at Knossos by Chris Scarre,Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

On March 23, 1900, Arthur John Evans and his staff began to excavate on Crete, looking for the fabled site of Knossos, where an extraordinary civilization, a precursor to classical Greece, was rumored to have existed. Almost from the first shovel stroke, artifacts began to emerge. Evans realized that here was "an extraordinary phenomenon, nothing Greek, nothing Roman. A wholly unexplored world." The Palace of Minos at Knossos recounts the exciting story of uncovering a remarkable society lost to the world for 3,500 years, from its initial discovery through its excavation to the structure we see today. Sidebars on archaeological techniques, illustrations of the sites, tables, and diagrams throughout provide a wealth of information on the Palace. The use of artifacts and other "documents" recovered from the Palace bring out the voices of the people of the past, offering clues to who they were and how they lived. The Palace of Minos at Knossos concludes with an interview with archaeologist Chris Scarre who talks about the misperceptions about Knossos and what we really know about its culture.

Author : Jan Driessen
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 906831257X

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An Early Destruction in the Mycenaean Palace at Knossos by Jan Driessen Pdf

Author : Chris Scarre,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195142723

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The Palace of Minos at Knossos by Chris Scarre,Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

A very basic introduction to Sir Arthur Evans' famous excavations at Knossos and the reconstruction work he oversaw.

Author : James Whitley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526441

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Knossos by James Whitley Pdf

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 of 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.

Author : Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623032807

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Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete by Nikos Efstratiou,Alexandra Karetsou,Maria Ntinou Pdf

The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods, it developed into a remarkable center of economic and social organization within the island, enjoying extensive relations with the Aegean, the Greek mainland, the Near East, and Egypt. After the systematic excavation of the deep Neolithic occupation levels by J.D. Evans in the late 1950s and later and more limited investigations of the Prepalatial deposits undertaken primarily during restoration work, no thorough exploration of the earliest occupation of the mound had been attempted. This monograph fills the gap, detailing the recent studies of the stratigraphy, architecture, ceramics, sedimentology, economy, and ecology that were a result of the opening of a new excavation trench in 1997. Together, these studies by 13 different contributors to the volume re-evaluate the importance of Neolithic Knossos and place it within the wider geographic context of the early island prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134967858

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The Knossos Labyrinth by Rodney Castleden Pdf

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 : Natale Barca
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259490

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Knossos, Mycenae, Troy by Natale Barca Pdf

This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow, but irreversible crisis. It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality. Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it. The author introduces and explains, in order to be read, and perhaps to get excited. Another characterizing element of Knossos, Mycenae, Troy is the wide use of the ‘historical present’ that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader’s distance from the narrated events, and facilitates their approach to them. This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity.

Author : Vyron Antoniadis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916411

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Knossos and the Near East by Vyron Antoniadis Pdf

In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs.

Author : John Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Inscriptions, Linear B
ISBN : 0521320259

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Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos by John Chadwick Pdf

Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781618916402

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The Palace of Knossos by Emily Rose Oachs Pdf

Thousands of years ago, royals gathered in the luxurious Palace of Knossos. Today, the palace is in ruins. Though bright frescoes still decorate its walls, the walls themselves are crumbling. What happened here? This high-interest title explores just that! Engaging text, colorful photos, maps, graphs, and other features combine to tell the gripping story of the Palace of Knossos and its fall to ruin.

Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
ISBN : UVA:X000090642

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The Destruction of Knossos by H. E. L. Mellersh Pdf

Author : Nanno Marinatos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857725165

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Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete by Nanno Marinatos Pdf

Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly uncovered at Troy and Mycenae the legendary cities of the Homeric epics. It was Evans who, in his controversial excavations at Knossos, steered Aegean archaeology away from Homer towards the broader Mediterranean world. Yet in so doing he is thought to have done his own inventing, recreating the Cretan Labyrinth via the Bronze Age myth of the Minotaur. Nanno Marinatos challenges the entrenched idea that Evans was nothing more than a flamboyant researcher who turned speculation into history. She argues that Evans was an excellent archaeologist, one who used scientific observation and classification. Evans's combination of anthropology, comparative religion and analysis of cultic artefacts enabled him to develop a bold new method which Sir James Frazer called 'mental anthropology'. It was this approach that led him to propose remarkable ideas about Minoan religion, theories that are now being vindicated as startling new evidence comes to light. Examining the frescoes from Akrotiri, on Santorini, that are gradually being restored, the author suggests that Evans's hypothesis of one unified goddess of nature is the best explanation of what they signify. Evans was in 1901 ahead of his time in viewing comparable Minoan scenes as a blend of ritual action and mythic imagination. Nanno Marinatos is a leading authority on Minoan religion. In this latest book she combines history, archaeology and myth to bold and original effect, offering a wholly new appraisal of Evans and the significance of his work. Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete will be essential reading for all students of Minoan civilization, as well as an irresistible companion for travellers to Crete.

Author : Gerald Cadogan,Eleni Hatzaki,Antōnēs Vasilakēs,British School at Athens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059230014

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Knossos by Gerald Cadogan,Eleni Hatzaki,Antōnēs Vasilakēs,British School at Athens Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM includes complete text and illustrations of chapters 48, 53 and 54 (at both low and high resolution).