The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at KnossosRoutledge, 12. okt. 2012 - 240 sider Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century, the first excavators - Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and Arthur Evans - were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of the classical authors. Rodney Castleden argues that this line of thought was a false trail and gives an alternative insight into the labyrinth which is every bit as exciting as the traditional explanations, and one which he believes is much closer to the truth. Rejecting Evans' view of Knossos as a bronze age royal palace, Castleden puts forward alternative interpretations - that the building was a necropolis or a temple - and argues that the temple interpretation is the most satisfactory in the light of modern archaeological knowledge about Minoan Crete. |
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The discovery of the Labyrinth | |
Arthur Evans and the 1900 dig at Knossos | |
The neolithic and prepalace periods at Knossos | |
Sir Arthur Evans interpretation | |
Wunderlichs Palace of the Dead | |
The Lady of the Labyrinth | |
The bull dance | |
The Thera eruption | |
The fall of the Labyrinth | |
The journey of the soul | |
Selected Linear B tablets | |
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The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the 'Palace of Minos' at Knossos Rodney Castleden Ingen forhåndsvisning - 1990 |
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adyton Aegean Agia Triadha altar Amnisos ancient Anemospilia archaeological architecture bronze age building built Bull Court bull games bull-leaping Bull's Head Central Court centre ceremonies chamber classical Cretan cult objects Daidalos dance decorated deities Double Axes Double-Axe Double-Axe Sanctuary earthquake East Wing Entrance Passage evidence excavation Figure floor Fresco function Grand Staircase Greek Hattusa horns interpretation Kalokairinos Kefala hill kilometres King Minos Knossian Knossos Labyrinth Late Dove Goddess later light-well mainland metres Minoan civilization Minoan Crete Minotaur Mount Juktas Mycenae Mycenean north-west offerings original painted Palace of Minos palatial peak sanctuary perhaps Phaistos Pillar Crypt Pillar Hall Portico Poseidon Poteidan Potnia pottery priestesses reconstruction religious rhyton ritual royal sacred sacrifice Schliemann seems shows Sir Arthur Evans Snake Goddess Snake Goddess Sanctuary stone store-rooms suggests symbol tablets temple temple-complex Thera eruption Theseus Throne Room Throne Sanctuary tomb Tripartite Shrine Velchanos walls West Wing worship Wunderlich Zakro Zeus