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March 23 , 2006

A Rare Pre-Greek Site in Italy

Posted at 17:00 EST

I know it's not Minoan, but this sounds very interesting all the same...

A very rare example of surviving pre-Greek settlement in southern Italy is to be excavated and explored. The site, at Molpa in the hills above Palinuro south of Naples, is believed to contain the remains of a large village of the Enotrians, the earliest known inhabitants of Calabria and southern Campania. The Greeks who settled across southern Italy from 700BC to create Magna Graecia had an idealised vision of the Enotrians ("wine lovers") as coming from the Eden-like land of Arcadia .

The full article is HERE In ANSA.

March 9 , 2006

Minoan/Mycenaean Booklist

Posted at 20:00 EST

Cadogan, G. PALACES OF MINOAN CRETE. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1976

Castleden, Rodney. MINOANS: LIFE IN BRONZE AGE CRETE. London: Routledge, 1990

Castleden, Rodney. THE KNOSSOS LABYRINTH: A NEW VIEW OF THE PALACE OF MINOS AT KNOSSOS. London: Routledge, 1989

Chadwick, John. LINEAR B AND RELATED SCRIPTS (READING THE PAST). Brit. Museum Pubns, 1987

Chadwick, John. THE DECIPHERMENT OF LINEAR B. Cambridge University, 1970

Chadwick, John. THE MYCENAEAN WORLD. Cambridge University, 1976

Cottrell, Leonard. THE BULL OF MINOS: THE DISCOVERIES OF SCHLIEMANN AND EVANS. Random House, 1984

Doumas, C. WALL PAINTINGS OF THERA. Greece: Thera Foundation, 1992

Evans, Arthur. THE PALACE OF MINOS AT KNOSSOS. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1921-36

Fitton, J. Lesley. MINOANS. British Museum, 2002

Graham, J.W. THE PALACES OF CRETE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987

Hawkes, Jacquetta. DAWN OF THE GODS: MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN ORIGINS OF GREECE. London: Chatto and Windus, 1968

Higgins, R. MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN ART. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981

Hood, Sinclair. THE MINOANS. London: Thames and Hudson, 1971

Horwitz, Sylvia L. THE FIND OF A LIFETIME: SIR ARTHUR EVANS AND THE DISCOVERY OF KNOSSOS. Phoenix Press, 2001

MacGillivray, Alexander. MINOTAUR: SIR ARTHUR EVANS AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MINOAN MYTH. Pimlico, 2001

Marinatos, Nanno. MINOAN RELIGION: RITUAL, IMAGE, AND SYMBOL (STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION) University of South Carolina, 1992

Palmer, Leonard. MYCENAEANS AND MINOANS. London: Faber and Faber, 1961

Willetts, R.F. EVERYDAY LIFE IN ANCIENT CRETE. London: Batsford, 1969

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