In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete (New Directions in Classics) - Softcover

Nicoletta Momigliano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350156701 ISBN 13: 9781350156708

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (UK), 2020

Synopsis

Longlisted for the Runciman Book Award 2021
Shortlisted for the European Association of Archaeologists 2023 book prize

In 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.

About this title

About the Author

Nicoletta Momigliano is Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Bristol, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (UK)
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350156701
• ISBN 13: 9781350156708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384