The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts by Castleden, Rodney

The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts

Castleden, Rodney

Reference

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Mycenaeans

Routledge

People Who Changed the World

Biographies & Memoirs

Back Bay Books

* A fascinating book detailing the major events that have changed the world we live in.

Events That Changed the World

History

World

World's Most Evil People

True Crime

Time Warner Books Uk

The purpose of this book is to provide a thought- provoking look at the various people whose lives have illuminated the world in one way or another. It highlights extraordinary individuals and the impact they made on society and the world in which we live.

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Little, Brown, UK

The Knossos Labyrinth

Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century, the first excavators - Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and Arthur Evans - were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of the classical authors. Rodney Castleden argues that this line of thought was a false trail and gives an alternative insight into the labyrinth which is every bit as exciting as the traditional explanations, and one which he believes is much closer to the truth. Rejecting Evans' view of Knossos as a bronze age royal palace, Castleden puts forward alternative interpretations - that the building was a necropolis or a temple - and argues that the temple interpretation is the most satisfactory in the light of modern archaeological knowledge about Minoan Crete.

The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at Knossos

Ancient Civilizations

The Stonehenge People

Rodney Castleden presents an illuminating and convincing interpretation of Stonhenge's cultural context and historical meaning.

The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC

The Making of Stonehenge

Every generation has created its own interpretation of Stonehenge, but rarely do these relate to the physical realities of the monument. Rodney Castleden begins with those elements which made possible the building of this vast stone circle: the site, the materials and the society that undertook the enormous task of transporting and raising the great vertical stones, then capping them, all to a carefully contrived plan. What emerges from this detailed examination is a much fuller sense of Stonehenge, both in relation to all the similar sites close by, and in terms of the uses to which it was put. Castleden suggests that there is no one 'meaning' or 'purpose' for Stonehenge, that from its very beginning it has filled a variety of needs. The Romans saw it as a centre of resistance; the antiquaries who 'rediscovered' it in the seventeenth century saw a long line of continuity leading back into the nation's past. The archaeologists see it as a subject for rational, scientific investigation; The National Trust and English Heritage view it as an unfailing magnet for visitors; UNESCO has declared it a World Heritage Site, the cultural property of the whole of humanity. Lost to view amid competing interests over the millenia are the uses it has served for those who live within its penumbra, for whom Stonehenge has never been 'lost' or 'rediscovered'. It exists in local myth and legend, stretching back beyond history.

Bang up to date, and thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.

Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete

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The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts

Mycenaeans

People Who Changed the World

Events That Changed the World

World's Most Evil People

People Who Changed the World

The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at Knossos

The Stonehenge People: An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain 4700-2000 BC

The Making of Stonehenge

Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete