Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos by Marinatos, Nanno
Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos by Marinatos, Nanno

Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos

Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in...
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Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos by Marinatos, Nanno

Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos

$477.60
Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos by Marinatos, Nanno

Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos

$477.60
Author: Nanno Marinatos
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly uncovered at Troy and Mycenae the legendary cities of the Homeric epics. It was Evans who, in his controversial excavations at Knossos, steered Aegean archaeology away from Homer towards the broader Mediterranean world. Yet in so doing he is thought to have done his own inventing, recreating the Cretan Labyrinth via the Bronze Age myth of the Minotaur. Nanno Marinatos challenges the entrenched idea that Evans was nothing more than a flamboyant researcher who turned speculation into history. She argues that Evans was an excellent archaeologist, one who used scientific observation and classification. Evans's combination of anthropology, comparative religion and analysis of cultic artefacts enabled him to develop a bold new method which Sir James Frazer called 'mental anthropology'.

It was this approach that led him to propose remarkable ideas about Minoan religion, theories that are now being vindicated as startling new evidence comes to light. Examining the frescoes from Akrotiri, on Santorini, that are gradually being restored, the author suggests that Evans's hypothesis of one unified goddess of nature is the best explanation of what they signify. Evans was in 1901 ahead of his time in viewing comparable Minoan scenes as a blend of ritual action and mythic imagination. Nanno Marinatos is a leading authority on Minoan religion. In this latest book she combines history, archaeology and myth to bold and original effect, offering a wholly new appraisal of Evans and the significance of his work. Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete will be essential reading for all students of Minoan civilization, as well as an irresistible companion for travellers to Crete.

Author: Nanno Marinatos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 12/24/2020
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781350197350

About the Author
Nanno Marinatos is Professor Emerita of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Her publications include Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine, Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol and The Naked Goddess and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion. Author residency - Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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