Cretomania

Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. It has appeared in a variety of modern cultural practices from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn, to public and vernacular architecture, psychoanalysis, literature, sculpture, fashion designs, and even neo-pagan movements. Cretomania is the first volume entirely devoted to such modern responses to (and uses of) the Minoan past and is an original contribution to an under-explored aspect of Minoan studies: the remarkable effects of Minoan Crete beyond the narrow boundaries of recondite archaeological research.