A Short History of the Minoans

Professor John Bennet (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-325-5 (ISBN)

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The Minoans have for decades tantalized all those who have tried to understand this most enigmatic people of the ancient world. The Minoan allure lies in large part in the riddles to which their mysterious culture gives rise. What is contained in their earliest writing script, the still un-deciphered Linear A? Did their likely extinction by volcanic eruption shape the Atlantis legend? Why was their religion so thoroughly matriarchal, with its symbols of snake goddess, serpent and labrys (double-headed axe)? What was the purpose of their great palaces at Knossos, Phaestos and Malia? What is the meaning of the atmospheric bull dance fresco uncovered at the palace of Knossos? The archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans controversially 'rediscovered' and then restored the Minoan civilization in the early twentieth century, and tied it to King Minos, builder of the famous labyrinth and keeper of the legendary Minotaur. In this lucid and absorbing new history of Crete from the 9th millennium BCE to the end of the Bronze Age (c 1000 BCE), John Bennet expertly draws on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries to separate fact from imagination, history from myth.

John Bennet is Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He has written extensively on the Minoan civilization and contributed an essay on 'The Aegean Bronze Age' to the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World' (2007).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.7.2024
Reihe/Serie	I.B. Tauris Short Histories
Zusatzinfo	100 integrated bw, 5 maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-78076-325-5 / 1780763255
ISBN-13	978-1-78076-325-5 / 9781780763255
Zustand	Neuware