In search of the labyrinth : the cultural legacy of Minoan Crete /
In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing arts and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth century, and on responses that involve a...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2020]
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| Series: | New directions in classics.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: desperately seeking Ariadne- the cultural legacy of Minoan Crete
- Sons of Europa : from medical remedies for constipation to bestiality, sexually transmitted death, and the dawn of the Minoan Age (from antiquity to mid-19th c.)
- Rediscovering European origins : Ariadne as the Great Mother Goddess (mid-19th century-World War I)
- Minoans and World Wars (c. 1915-1949) : the Aryan revenge
- The Minoans in the Cold War and the swinging sixties : from the end of the Greek civil war to the end of the Colonels' dictatorship (c. 1949-1974)
- Minoan paradises lost and regained : from cannibalism to postmodernism (c. 1975-1999)
- Minoan cultural legacies : every age has the Minoans it deserves and desires.