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In Search of the Labyrinth : The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Desperately Seeking Ariadne - the Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete1 -- 2 Sons of Europa: From Medical Remedies for Constipation to...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
, 2020
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| Series: | New Directions in Classics Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6259020 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Desperately Seeking Ariadne - the Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete1 -- 2 Sons of Europa: From Medical Remedies for Constipation to Bestiality, Sexually Transmitted Death, and the Dawn of the 'Minoan Age' (from Antiquity to the Mid-Nineteenth Century) -- Ancient responses to Minoan Crete -- From Arab to Ottoman: Responses to Minoan material culture c. 824-1860, and the dawn of the 'Minoan Age' -- 3 Rediscovering European Origins: Ariadne as the Great Mother Goddess (Mid-Nineteenth Century-First World War) -- The Schliemann factor -- From the tomb of Agamemnon to the palace of Minos -- 'Little Evans - son of John Evans the Great' and the road to Knossos45 -- From the Palace of Minos to the Palace of Ariadne: Κρητική Πολιτεία (Cretan State) (1898-1913) and the Heroic Age of Cretan excavations -- All aboard! The Minoans in the late Belle Époque -- Cretomania in the late Belle Époque: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1900-1918 - Neo-Minoans from Crete to Paris and beyond -- Conclusions: The romance and triumph of Minoan Crete, the decadence of Mycenaean Greece -- 4 Minoans and the World Wars (c. 1915-49): The Aryan Revenge -- Crete from the Kritiki Politeia to the Second World War and its aftermath -- From pan-Minoan Aegean to 'Minoans go home!' - the return of the Aryans and the decline and fall of the Minoan Empire -- Cretomania amidst World and Civil Wars: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1918-1949 - from decadence to hope for the future -- Conclusions: The Minoans in an age of extremes and catastrophes -- 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. 1949-74). Crete: From civil war to military junta and tourist boom -- New discoveries: From the decipherment of Linear B to volcanic catastrophes -- Minoan archaeological-historical narratives in a Cold War and post-colonial world: From culture-historical to processual approaches -- Cretomania in the Cold War: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1949-1974 - from 'The mother strikes back' to the Minoans as Trojans -- Conclusions: The Minoans in the Cold War and swinging sixties -- 6 Minoan Paradises Lost and Regained: From Cannibalism to Postmodernism (c. 1975-99) -- Greece and Crete from the fall of the Junta to the new millennium -- Crete of the hundred palaces, human sacrifi ce, and cannibalism: Archaeological discoveries on Crete and elsewhere (c. 1975-1999) -- Minoans in archaeological narratives of the last quarter of the twentieth century: From priest-kings to Buddhism and matriarchal theocracies -- Cretomania in a postmodern world: The Minoans in modern cultural practices c. 1975-1999 - from New Age Minoans to postmodern critiques of Greek history -- Conclusions: The Minoans in postmodern times - between paradises lost and regained -- 7 Minoan Cultural Legacies: Every Age Has the Minoans It Deserves and Desires -- Every age has the Minoans it deserves and desires -- Into the new millennium: Minoans inpost-post modern and post-humanist times4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350156722 |
