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Due to their reduced state of preservations, the argument of a stone vault for Minoan tholos tombs has been discussed in the past years with open or not unanimous conclusions.Thanks to a special survey carried out during summer 2009 on Kamilari A tholos t... see more

Due to their reduced state of preservations, the argument of a stone vault for Minoan tholos tombs has been discussed in the past years with open or not unanimous conclusions.Thanks to a special survey carried out during summer 2009 on Kamilari A tholos t... see more

Minoan Crete’ is currently taught in primary schools (at Third Grade, age 8) throughout Greece as part of the history curriculum. For Cretan children, however, the experience is different, because they are physically surrounded not only by the remains of ... see more

The discovery of Minoan civilisation has not produced the same impact in Italy as elsewhere. This is due to many factors, including the existence of other ancient cultures (above all Greek and Roman, but also Etruscan, Celtic, Sicanian, etc.) which could ... see more

In 1931 the first reference to Minoan archaeology appeared in Freud’s psychoanalytic writings. Eight years later, in his last published work, Moses and Monotheism, ancient Crete was invoked in support of one of his most contentious, unfashionable and craz... see more

In literature in English, and in the popular imagination in English-speaking countries generally, the Minoan period is a kind of golden age, an Atlantis or Garden of Eden before the Fall. And, in such a construction, the Fall comes with the Mycenaeans, wh... see more

This chapter focuses on literary appropriations of the Minoan past, chosen from the work of major Greek authors active between the early 20th and the early 21st century. Kazantzakis in his Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938) depicts Minoan society as terminal... see more

The ‘Minoan’ past was constructed at the beginning of the 20th century by colonial and national processes as the first ‘European civilisation’. The remnants of the Cretan Bronze Age were recast, reordered, re-created, and forged to produce a world of obje... see more

In this chapter I discuss recent attempts to link the Scandinavian Bronze Age with Minoan Crete. The current political agenda of Europeanism is one important incentive behind these efforts to search for a pan-European identity in the past. Evidence of con... see more

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