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In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure chance, the two events, although separated by over twenty years, are irrevocably linked by the taverna where the young Englishman ends up helping out. The result is life-changing, both for the mother of the child that disappeared, and for the young Englishman. A chance visit to the same taverna by these two separate individuals brings on a crisis in both of their lives, but will it end well for either?
In Acts 27 of the Bible, Apostle Paul is recorded as stopping on the south coast of the island of Crete, Greece, on his way to Rome to be tried before Nero, who lived from AD 34-68 and became Emperor in AD 54. Written by Paul's travel companion Luke, the book of Acts suggests that the ship they were on stayed in south Crete longer than necessary. Knowing that he could be executed for treason, did Paul leave a final message for mankind on the island? After all, he was the main co-author of the New Testament and known to carry scrolls with him on his journeys. A well-funded archaeological team with the newest hi-tech search equipment goes to check things out. The dig team briefly visits the island of Skyros first due to its ancient connections to Crete and then proceeds to the southern part of that island. Crete is the island where the Minoan civilization (so-called by Arthur Evans, though they called themselves Keftiuans) thrived for over a thousand years and traded widely with other lands without fortifications, without war, and under the governance of women. Hmm. So one wonders what all the dig team may find! Because the hedge-fund billionaire who funded the university's archaeological school and funded its digs is a conservative Christian, she gave a great deal of money to numerous churches and ultra-conservative organizations, including one that got her put on America's terrorist watch list. A set of logical circumstances and overzealous military attention to her super-yacht that goes to pick up the dig team (which includes her twin daughters) and take them to Athens at the end of the season combine for potential disaster. Woven into the narrative of The Cretan Connection are ancient Greek history and mythology, archaeology, small doses of the physical sciences, diverse religions, and a dash or two of politics. It is a relaxing, enjoyable, upbeat read with occasional serious and tense moments but mostly lots of fun, an enigmatic story that can be read with different meanings.
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Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete by Michael Robertson Pdf
This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways.
Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete by Rena N. Lauer Pdf
When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.
Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece by Michael Loy Pdf
This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light on how exactly the early communities of the Aegean basin were plugged into one another. Returning to the long-debated question of 'what is a polis?', this study also challenges Classical Archaeology more generally: that the discipline has at its fingertips significant datasets that can contribute to substantive historical debate -and that what can be done for the next generation of scholarship is to re-engage with old material in a new way.
Author : Emily S. K. Anderson Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 341 pages File Size : 47,8 Mb Release : 2016-10-14 Category : History ISBN : 9781107131194
Culture and Society in Crete by Liana Giannakopoulou,E. Kostas Skordyles Pdf
Crete has always attracted the interest of scholars in modern times not only because of the archaeological discoveries of Sir Arthur Evans, but also because of its rich history and the particular cultural traits and traditions resulting from the fact that the island has been at the centre of geographical, cultural and religious crossroads. The fifteen papers included in this volume explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, give original insights into already established fields and underline from the vantage point of their own particular discipline its distinctive character and impact. As a result of such a thematic variety, this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of modern Greek studies, but also Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, cultural and social history and anthropology, and travel literature, as well as historical linguistics and dialectology.
Origines Kalendariae Hellenicae: Or, the History of the Primitive Calendar Among the Greeks, Before and After the Legistation of Solon by Edward Greswell Pdf
The city-state of Venice, with a population of less than 100,000, dominated a fragmented and fragile empire at the boundary between East and West, between Latin Christian, Greek Orthodox, and Muslim worlds. In this institutional and administrative history, Monique O’Connell explains the structures, processes, practices, and laws by which Venice maintained its vast overseas holdings. The legal, linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity within Venice’s empire made it difficult to impose any centralization or unity among its disparate territories. O’Connell has mined the vast archival resources to explain how Venice’s central government was able to administer and govern its extensive empire. O’Connell finds that successful governance depended heavily on the experience of governors, an interlocking network of noble families, who were sent overseas to negotiate the often conflicting demands of Venice’s governing council and the local populations. In this nexus of state power and personal influence, these imperial administrators played a crucial role in representing the state as a hegemonic power; creating patronage and family connections between Venetian patricians and their subjects; and using the judicial system to negotiate a balance between local and imperial interests. In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O’Connell offers a historical example of an early modern empire at the height of imperial expansion.
Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete by Joan M. Cichon Pdf
This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.