Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age

by John C. McEnroe

Book Overview

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292760914
• ISBN13: 9780292760912
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"