Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete - Hardcover

Castleden, Rodney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138142204 ISBN 13: 9781138142206

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.

Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours, while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This, at least, is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view?

Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years, Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.

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Review:

"Displaying sound scholarship, Castleden cites excavations and theories in detailed but accessible prose. . . . A more complex, even contradictory, image of the Minoans than appears in other works."
-"Booklist
"Strongly recommended for all ancient history collections."
-"Choice
"Well researched, well illustrated, and bang up to date as far as recent discoveries are concerned."
-"Minerva

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138142204
• ISBN 13: 9781138142206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236