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"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"-- But arguably it was the sensational discoveries in the early twentieth century of Sir Arthur Evans and other archaeologists on Crete that more completely revolutionized understandings of prehistory. The ancient civilization Evans found on the island was dubbed 'Minoan', after the legendary King Minos; and ever since - whether they be RG Collingwood or Gordon Childe, Giorgio de Chirico or Pablo Picasso, Robert Graves or Mary Renault - classicists, archaeologists, artists and writers have alike been captivated by the Minoans. From appropriations by European intellectuals to feminist identifications with the Mother Goddess, Nicoletta Momigliano here offers the most complete history of the rediscovery of Minoan culture and its reception from Evans to the present day. She situates Bronze Age Crete and its material remains in a broad intellectual context, exploring in depth the enduring imaginative legacy of the Minoan civilization.

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Cemeteries --- Tombs --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Bronze age --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Material culture --- Minoans --- Antiquities --- Moni Odigitria (Crete, Greece) --- Crete (Greece) --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graves --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- Civilization --- Odigitria Monastery (Crete, Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Bioarchaeology --- Cemeteries - Greece - Crete --- Tombs - Greece - Crete --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Crete --- Bronze age - Greece - Crete --- Human remains (Archaeology) - Greece - Crete --- Material culture - Greece - Crete --- Minoans - Greece - Crete - Antiquities --- Crete (Greece) - Antiquities --- Moni Odigitria (Crete, Greece).