The Knossos labyrinth : a new view of the "Palace of Minos" at Knosos / Rodney Castleden ; illustrated by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.

1 The legendary Knossos. 2 The discovery of the labyrinth. 3 Arthur Evans and teh 1900 dig at Knossos. 4 The neolithic and pre-palace periods at Knossos. 5 The bronze age palace: Sir Arthur Evans' interpretation. 6 Wunderlich's 'Palace of the Dead'. 7 The temple of the goddesses. 8 Beyond the labyrinth walls. 9 The lady of the labyrinth. 10 The bull dance. 11 The Thera eruption. 12 The fall of the labyrinth. 13 The journey of the soul

'...when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century AD, the first excavators--Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and Arthur Evans--were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of classical authors. Rodney Castleden...argues that this line of thought was a false trail, one that has obscured the true nature of the Labyrinth....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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