The Knossos labyrinth : a new view of the "Palace of Minos" at Knosos /
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 l...
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| Language: | English |
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1990
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203405005 9780203405000 058545261X 9780585452616 9780415033152 0415033152 9780415513203 0415513200 9781134967810 1134967810 9781134967858 1134967853 9781134967865 1134967861 128004604X 9781280046049 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
