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| Named Person: | Arthur Evans, Sir; Arthur Evans |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cathy Gere |
| ISBN: | 9780226289533 0226289532 |
| OCLC Number: | 262429441 |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for John D. Criticos Prize 2010. |
| Description: | x, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The birth of tragedy, 1822-1897 -- An archaeology of heroes -- A prophecy of tragedy -- Fascism's Greek prehistory -- What Ariadne is -- Stand-up tragedy, 1851-1899 -- The dry smell of time -- Eastern questions -- The road to the labyrinth -- Greek defeat -- Reconstructing the nation -- Ariadne's lament, 1900-1913 -- Ariadne's throne -- The great Cretan mother -- Ariadne's dancing floor -- The making of a goddess -- The Villa Ariadne -- Cretan victory -- Ariadne in Chirico city -- The concrete labyrinth, 1914-1935 -- The throne room complex -- Captain of the blacks -- Court ladies -- Priest-king and cowgirls -- Lost boys -- The lady of sports -- The magic ring -- The psyche element -- Little souls -- Psyche's labyrinth, 1919-1941 -- Mythical method -- The decline of Crete -- Achilles' shield -- Freudian archaeology -- Psyche's muse -- Crete on the couch -- The battle of Crete -- The rebirth of comedy, 1942-1949 -- Psyche reborn -- Paradise before Eve -- Psyche rewritten -- The consort -- New Crete -- The birth of farce, 1950-2000 -- Romantic revivals -- The white goddess -- Black Athena -- The road back to war. |
| Responsibility: | Cathy Gere. |
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"A stylish and original cultural history of Knossos." (Economist) "Fascinating and consistently entertaining.... It is a tribute to the wit and clarity of Gere's style that she is able to explain all this without making the reader's brain ache." (Times Literary Supplement) "Cathy Gere re-creates a century of bizarre misreadings of the nearly unknown ancient culture of Crete, and in doing so has produced that rarest of literary surprises: a genuinely hilarious work of Minoan historiography." (Benjamin Moser, Harper's) "Gere attempts to understand the archaeologists, architects, artists, classicists, writers, and poets who reconstructed Minoan Crete in our time. And she does so brilliantly." (Library Journal) "The implications of this fascinating book extend far beyond the island that is its focus." (Science) "A brilliant study of the role of Knossos in twentieth-century culture.... Gere writes with clarity and wit, but she never sacrifices the fascinating complexity of her tale to a simple story line." (New York Review of Books)" Read more...
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- Palace of Knossos (Knossos)
- Evans, Arthur, -- Sir, -- 1851-1941.
- Arts -- 20th century -- Greek influences.
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- Archaeology and art.
- Archaeology -- Political aspects.
- Evans, Arthur.
- Minoische Kultur.
- Rezeption.
- Moderne.
- Ausgrabung.
- Knossos / Palast.
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