The Archaeology of Crete

The Archaeology of Crete
Title The Archaeology of Crete PDF eBook
Author John D. Pendlebury
Publisher Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Pages 496
Release 1969-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780819601216

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The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete

The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete
Title The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete PDF eBook
Author J. Wilson Myers
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 354
Release 1992
Genre Aerial photography in archaeology
ISBN 0520073827

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"This marvelous and uniquely comprehensive book sets a new, high standard of excellence in the study of Greek archaeology."--Ronald S. Stroud, University of California, Berkeley

The Archaeology of Minoan Crete

The Archaeology of Minoan Crete
Title The Archaeology of Minoan Crete PDF eBook
Author Reynold Alleyne Higgins
Publisher Random House (UK)
Pages 128
Release 1973
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Discusses the archaeological excavations of ancient Crete and what they have revealed about life there between 3000 B.C. and 1100 B.C.

The Mosaics of Roman Crete

The Mosaics of Roman Crete
Title The Mosaics of Roman Crete PDF eBook
Author Rebecca J. Sweetman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 401
Release 2013-05-31
Genre Art
ISBN 1107018404

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This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography, and chronology of the material, as well as discussion of the craftspeople who created them and the technologies they used. The contextualized mosaic evidence also reveals a new understanding of Roman and Late Antique Crete. It helps shed light on the processes by which Crete became part of the Roman Empire, its subsequent Christianization, and the pivotal role the island played in the Mediterranean network of societies during these periods. This book provides an original approach to the study of mosaics and an innovative method of presenting a diachronic view of provincial Cretan society.

Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete

Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete
Title Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete PDF eBook
Author Nanno Marinatos
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 304
Release 2014-12-22
Genre History
ISBN 0857725165

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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.

Roman Crete: New Perspectives

Roman Crete: New Perspectives
Title Roman Crete: New Perspectives PDF eBook
Author Jane E. Francis
Publisher Oxbow Books
Pages 364
Release 2016-05-31
Genre History
ISBN 1785700960

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The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman provinces. New research has also meant a reevaluation of old data in light of new discoveries, and the history and archaeology of Crete is now being rewritten. The breadth of topics addressed by the papers in this volume is an indication of Crete’s vast archaeological potential for contributing to current academic issues such as Romanization/acculturation, climate and landscape studies, regional production and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the late-Antique era. These papers confirm Crete’s place as a fully realized participant in the Roman world over the course of many centuries but also position it as a newly discovered source of academic inquiry.

The Archaeology of Crete

The Archaeology of Crete
Title The Archaeology of Crete PDF eBook
Author John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury
Publisher
Pages 494
Release 1939
Genre Crete (Greece)
ISBN

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