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MINOANS
Life in Bronze Age Crete
RODNEY CASTLEDEN
Illustrated by the author
London and New York
First published 1990 by Routledge
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First published in paperback 1993
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This edition published in theTaylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
© 1990, 1993 Rodney Castleden
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Castleden, Rodney
Minoans: life in bronze age crete.
1. Minoan civilisation
I. Title
939'.18
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Castleden, Rodney
Minoans: life in BronzeAge Crete/by Rodney Castleden.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Minoans—Social life and customs. 2. Crete (Greece)—Social life and customs. I. Title.
1991 90-32407
ISBN 0-415-08833-X (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-13581-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-17591-3 (Glassbook Format)
For Michael Tippett
Thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and
temples beyond the art of Phidias and Praxiteles beyond the splendour of Babylon and
Hekatompylos: and from the anarchy of dreaming sleep, callest into sunny light the faces of
long-buried beauties.
(Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opi