Knossos A Labyrinth Of History

Author : Don Evely,R. D. G. Evely,Helen Hughes-Brock,Nicoletta Momigliano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032713029

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Knossos, a Labyrinth of History by Don Evely,R. D. G. Evely,Helen Hughes-Brock,Nicoletta Momigliano Pdf

This collection of papers, in honour of Sinclair Hood, ranges across the archaeology and history of Knossos. The first ten chapters progress from the Neolithic to the Roman period; the last three return to the Bronze Age settlement and specific important aspects of it. The aim of the volume as a whole is to present an outline of the present state of our knowledge with some mention of current and outstanding problems and with pointers to future lines of enquiry.

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : James Whitley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Knossos (Extinct city)
ISBN : 135024161X

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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 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 : Valasia Isaakidou,P. Tomkins
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974901

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Escaping the Labyrinth by Valasia Isaakidou,P. Tomkins Pdf

Beneath the Bronze Age 'Palace of Minos', Neolithic Knossos is one of the earliest known farming settlements in Europe and perhaps the longest-lived. For 3000 years, Neolithic Knossos was also perhaps one of very few settlements on Crete and, for much of this time, maintained a distinctive material culture. This volume radically enhances understanding of the important, but hitherto little known, Neolithic settlement and culture of Crete. Thirteen papers, from the tenth Sheffield Aegean Round Table in January 2006, explore two aspects of the Cretan Neolithic: the results of recent re-analysis of a range of bodies of material from J.D. Evans' excavations at EN-FN Knossos; and new insights into the Cretan Late and Final Neolithic and the contentious belated colonisation of the rest of the island, drawing on both new and old fieldwork. Papers in the first group examine the idiosyncratic Knossian ceramic chronology (P. Tomkins), human figurines from a gender perspective (M. Mina), funerary practices (S. Triantaphyllou), chipped stone technology (J. Conolly), land and-use and its social implications (V. Isaakidou). Those in the second group, present a re-evaluation of LN Katsambas (N. Galanidou and K. Mandeli), evidence for later Neolithic exploration of eastern Crete (T. Strasser), Ceremony and consumption at late Final Neolithic Phaistos (S. Todaro and S. Di Tonto), Final Neolithic settlement patterns (K. Nowicki), the transition to the Early Bronze Age at Kephala Petra (Y. Papadatos), and a critical appraisal of Final Neolithic 'marginal colonisation' (P. Halstead). In conclusion, C. Broodbank places the Cretan Neolithic within its wider Mediterranean context and J.D. Evans provides an autobiographical account of a lifetime of insular Neolithic exploration.

Author : SHAPLAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 1910807559

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Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality by SHAPLAND Pdf

- The catalog of the the first major UK exhibition to focus solely on Knossos, at The Ashmolean, Oxford, running from February to July, 2023 - It will provide an up-to-date guide to the archaeology, and history of discovery, of the Palace and wider area - The 20+ contributors are all experts in their field Crete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travelers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived, such as a coin with a labyrinth design and numerous small bronze age items. The name Knossos had survived - but it was nothing but a sprinkling of houses and farmland so they looked elsewhere. Finally, in 1878, a Cretan archeologist, Minos Kalokairinos discovered evidence of a Bronze Age palace. British Archaeologist and then Keeper of the Ashmolean Arthur Evans came out to visit and was fascinated by the site. Between 1900 and 1931 Evans uncovered the remains of the huge palace which he felt must be the that of King Minos, and he adopted the name 'Minoans' for its occupants. He employed a team of archeologists, architects and artists, and together they built up a picture of the Bronze Age community that had occupied the elaborate building. They imagined a sophisticated, nature-loving people, whose civilization peaked, and then disintegrated. Evans's interpretations of his finds were accurate in some places, but deeply flawed in others. The Evans Archive, held by the Ashmolean, records his finds, theories and (often contentious) reconstructions.

Author : Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054431963

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Labyrinth Revisited by Yannis Hamilakis Pdf

`Minoan' Crete is one of the most intensively investigated archaeological cultures in the world, and one that has often captured the public imagination. It is a Bronze Age Aegean society, but it has been intimately connected with the Classical Greek myth of King Minos and his Labyrinth since Sir Arthur Evans excavated and restored (some would say `rebuilt') the important site of Knossos, more than a century ago. Yet many archaeological interpretations of this fascinating culture are still largely traditional in focus and often anachronistic. This collection of papers, challenging and re-examining many conventional and established versions of 'Minoan' history is thus long overdue. How have modern preconceptions and socio-political developments shaped archaeological interpretations of 'Minoan' society? What were the gender roles and attitudes of the inhabitants of Bronze Age Crete? How can data such as the puzzling architecture, the stunning wall-paintings, the elaborate and abundant pots, the landscape and the way it is perceived by humans, help us understand the nature and the negotiations of power and the role of the so-called palaces? These are some of the questions that this book addresses, considering 'Minoan' archaeology from a variety of interpretive angles, and situating 'Minoan' archaeology in the mainstream of archaeological thinking and practice.

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471501183

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The Knossos Labyrinth by Rodney Castleden Pdf

Author : Alexandre Farnoux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 0500300690

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Knossos by Alexandre Farnoux Pdf

The legend of the Minotaur imprisoned in the Labyrinth beneath the palace of King Minos has haunted Europe's imagination since ancient times. Excavating the site in search of the truth, Arthur Evans uncovered frescoed rooms and erotic statuettes, colourful ceramics and thousands of clay tablets bearing an indecipherable script. Recounting the story of that determined quest and its extraordinary success, this book shows how Minoan civilization was restored to history.

Author : Cathy Gere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : W. H. Matthews
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547254898

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Mazes and Labyrinths by W. H. Matthews Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mazes and Labyrinths" (A General Account of Their History and Development) by W. H. Matthews. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Nicoletta Momigliano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350156715

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In Search of the Labyrinth by Nicoletta Momigliano Pdf

Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologies 2023 book prize In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts – from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Efstathiadis Group/Bay Foreing Langua
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 9602265639

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Knossos by Rodney Castleden Pdf

The Minonan ruins at Knossos are spectacular to look at and exciting to explore, whatever we believe the original building was used for. It became famous in antiquity as the Labyrinth, the first maze, and it was believed that the great engineer Daidalos designed it. Arthur Evans thought it was the palace of the legendary King Minos, but year-by-year the evidence increases that it was not a palace, but a temple. In this new guide, Rodney Castleden takes us round the building, showing in detail how each room and courtyard functioned within the bronze age temple precinct. We are shown the cellars for storing the offerings Minonans made to their gods, the paved courts for public ceremonies, the sanctuary suites for initiation rituals. In the frescoes we see the powerful priestess who ran the temple. This new perspective takes us much closer to the reality of bronze age Crete than any previous guide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0872265447

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In Search of Knossos by Anonim Pdf

Describes the discovery and excavation of Knossos by the archaelogist Sir Arthur Evans and what the site revealed about the Minoan civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from about 3000 to 1150 B.C.

Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847659705

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Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox Pdf

The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the imagination. But this captivating story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans, the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos and Michael Ventris, the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober, without whose painstaking work, recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets and magazines and stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft, Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers - only made available recently - Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma, and along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages, like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Island.

Author : Marta De la Torre
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364862

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The Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region by Marta De la Torre Pdf

One of the greatest challenges faced today by those responsible for ancient cultural sites is that of maintaining the delicate balance between conserving these fragile resources and making them available to increasing numbers of visitors. Tourism, unchecked development, and changing environmental conditions threaten significant historical sites throughout the world. These issues are among the topics dealt with in this book, which reports on the proceedings of an international conference on the conservation of classical sites in the Mediterranean region, organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The book includes chapters discussing management issues at three sites: Piazza Armerina, Sicily; Knossos, Crete; and Ephesus, Turkey. While visiting these sites, conference participants examined how issues raised at these locales can illuminate the challenges of management and conservation faced by complex heritage sites the world over. Additional chapters discuss such topics as the management of cultural sites, the reconstruction of ancient buildings, and ways of presenting and interpreting sites for today's visitors.