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Title:
Labyrinth : knossos, myth & reality / edited by Andrew Shapland.
Publisher:
Ashmolean Museum,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 28 cm
Subject:
Evans, Arthur,--Sir,--1851-1941
Evans, Arthur,--Sir,--1851-1941--Exhibitions.
Evans, Arthur,--Sir,--1851-1941.
Knossos (Extinct city)--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
Labyrinths--Knossos (Extinct city)--Knossos (Extinct city)--History--Exhibitions.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Knossos (Extinct city)--Knossos (Extinct city)--Exhibitions.
Minoans--Exhibitions.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Labyrinths.
Minoans.
Greece--Knossos (Extinct city)
History.
Other Authors:
Shapland, Andrew, editor.
Ashmolean Museum, host institution.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-253). Exhibition: Oxford, Ashmolean museum, 10 February-30 July 2023.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781910807552
1910807559
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1340032745
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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