![]() ![]() Marinatos provides new readings of numerous Minoan artifacts, offering solutions to many puzzles and placing the imagery within a semantic system of sacral kingship and cosmology."-Kenneth D. "A radical and provocative view of Minoan art, religion, and society. Without a doubt, this book will stimulate extensive scholarly discussion."-Thomas Staubli, coauthor of Body Symbolism in the Bible "A multifaceted, innovative work that freshly interprets many aspects of the Minoan religious symbol system. "An exhilarating book, breezily written with a hands-on approach to the material."- Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections ![]() In many ways it is a tour de force of scholarship, embodying new insights and illuminating points of detail."- Times Literary Supplement, Colin Renfrew Lapatin's book is meticulously researched and referenced, and its cumulative effect is to make one look very carefully at all ancient artefacts, let alone the 'Minoan snake goddesses' so lauded by Sir Arthur Evans & his ilk. Lapatin was the AIA’s 2009/2010 Joukowsky Lecturer. Reviews"A well-written and richly informed work, which forcefully reasserts the validity of the ways eminent scholars, going back to the early work of Sir Arthur Evans more than a century ago, thought. He has conducted fieldwork in Caesaria Martima (Israel), Roma and Corinth, and his main publications include Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World, and Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History. ![]()
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