![]() ![]() ![]() As Fitton writes: Romanticism, lyricism, the tendency to project on to Minoan Crete ideas of another Eden - such ways of thinking have imbued many writings about the Minoan culture, both scholarly and popular. But then, minos could have meant nothing more than the word pharaoh does in Egypt. ![]() Lesley Fitton called "glorified laundry lists." The first modern archeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, had no qualms about creating his own Minoan civilization: In fact, the word "Minoan" comes from Evans based on a legendary king called Minos. The fact of the matter is that, insofar as we know, the Minoans had no literature: They using their written languages - hieroglyphics, Linear A, and Linear B - to produce inventories and what author J. The images we have of the Minoans are so fascinating, but as Cretan-born novelist Nikos Kazantzakis wrote, "This world looked at us with immense black eyes, but its lips were still sealed." If it were not for the last chapter entitled "The Mythological Legacy and the Reception of Minoan Crete," I would have rated this as a rather boring nuts-and-bolts scientific archeological work. ![]()
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