In Search of the Labyrinth

The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete

AvNicoletta Momigliano,Fiachra Mac Góráin

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Longlisted for the Runciman Book Award 2021Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists 2023 book prizeIn 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 clear engagement with the material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians, philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts – from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, André Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Léon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and other media.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Classics
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350156708
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for EAA Book Prize 2023 (UK)

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Nicoletta Momigliano is Professor of Aegean Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She specialises in Minoan archaeology and has directed and co-directed several archaeological projects in Crete and Turkey, including excavations at Knossos and Palaikastro, and field surveys in Lycia. Her previous books include Duncan Mackenzie: A Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos at Knossos (1999), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’ (edited with Y. Hamilakis, 2006), Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan) (2007), and Cretomania: Modern Desires for the Minoan Past (edited with A. Farnoux, 2017).

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Momigliano offers a remarkably detailed and nuanced overview of archaeological research on Crete and the history of the island in general. Such an attentive introduction and contextualisation ensures that readers unfamiliar with the ‘crypto-colonial’ roots of Minoan archaeology are given a solid foundation.

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List of tables and figuresPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: desperately seeking Ariadne – the cultural legacy of Minoan CreteChapter 2. 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.)Chapter 3. Rediscovering European origins: Ariadne as the Great Mother Goddess (mid-19th century-World War I)Chapter 4. Minoans and World Wars (c. 1915-1949): the Aryan revengeChapter 5. The Minoans in the Cold War and swinging sixties: from the end of the Greek civil war to the end of the Colonels’ dictatorship (c. 1949-1974)Chapter 6. Minoan paradises lost and regained: from cannibalism to postmodernism (c. 1975-1999)Chapter 7. Minoan cultural legacies – every age has the Minoans it deserves and desiresNotesBibliographyIndex