In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Number of pages384
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781350156715, 9781350156722
ISBN (Print)9781784538545, 9781350156708
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Sept 2020

Publication series

NameNew Directions in Classics
PublisherBloomsbury

Research Groups and Themes

  • Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition

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    Momigliano, N., 2021, Tenue est mendacium: Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique & Early Christian Works. Lennartz, K. & Martinez, J. (eds.). Groningen: Barkhuis, p. 293-314

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