The bull of Minos /

The bull of Minos /

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Author / Creator:	Cottrell, Leonard.
Imprint:	New York : Rinehart, ©1958.
Description:	xvii, 234 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Minoans. Antiquities. Minoans. Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities. Greece -- Crete.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3393243

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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index. Also issued online.
Summary:	"The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BCE to the 15th century BCE. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Arthur Evans."--Wikipedia.
Other form:	Online version: Cottrell, Leonard. Bull of Minos. New York, Rinehart [1958]

Table of Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Homer and the historians
Schliemann the romantic
The "treasure of Priam"
"Golden Mycenae"
Pause for reflection
"Here begins an entirely new science"
The quest continues
prelude to Crete
Island of legend
A challenge accepted
The birth cave of Zeus
"And still the wonder grew"
Into the labyrinth
The villa Ariadne
The palace of the sea kings
"The old traditions were true."