Knossos by James Whitley - 9781472527257

KnossosMyth, History and Archaeology\nAuthor(s): James Whitley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781472527257, 978-1472527257\nSynopsis\nKnossos 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.\n\n 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 approac.