The Secret of Crete

by H. G. Wunderlich

Paperback, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

939.1

Collection

Publication

Souvenir Press Ltd (1988), 319 pages

Description

The secret of Crete is Wunderlich's attempt to resolve the paradoxes that have obsessed the archaeological world ever since Evan's spectacular find at the beginning of this century.

User reviews

LibraryThing member keylawk
The culture is like nothing else in the ancient Mediterranean region. Why did they build such an extensive palace? Devote themselves to massage and bull-vaulting? What strange end blotted them out for 3000 years?
The authors' thesis that this culture revived the Hellenic "Dark Ages" is now
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Language

Original language

German

Original publication date

1972

Physical description

319 p.; 9.2 inches

ISBN

0285628488 / 9780285628489

Local notes

GdP - Gift of Ginny du Praw
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