The Palace of Minos at Knossos - complete edition

Sir Arthur Evans:

• The Palace of Minos
• A comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos
• Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941) was a British archaeologist and museum director. He is considered the discoverer of Minoan culture.
• Evans was director of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford from 1884 to 1908. During this time, he received the first finds from Knossos, which was already mentioned by Homer and discovered in 1878 by the wealthy Cretan merchant and amateur archaeologist Minos Kalokairinos.
• Inspired by Heinrich Schliemann, Evans traveled to Crete in 1894 to search for the ruins of Knossos. Evans began excavations in 1900 and continued them until 1935. He uncovered a magnificent palace with numerous frescoes and art objects.
• He summarized his discoveries and research on Minoan culture in a comprehensive six-volume work "The Palace of Minos", to which his sister Joan Evans added an index volume in 1936.
• Sir Arthur received numerous honors and was knighted by King George V. in 1911.

Contents of the 7 Books:

• Volume 1: The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages (1921)
• Volume 2, Part 1: Fresh lights on origins and external relations: the restore in town and palace after seismic catastrophe towards close of M. M. III, and the beginnings of the new era (1928)
• Volume 2, Part 2: Town-houses in Knossos of the new era and restored west palace section, with ist state Approach (1928)
• Volume 3: The great transitional age in the northern and eastern sections of the palace: The most brilliant records of Minoan Art and the evidences of an advanced Religion (1930)
• Volume 4, Part 1: Emergence of outer western enceinte, with new illustrations, artistic and religious, of the middle Minoan phase: Chryselephantine 'lady of sports', 'snake room' and full story of the cult: Late Minoan ceramic evolution and 'palace style' (1935)
• Volume 4, Part 2: 'Camp-stool' fresco –long-robed priests and beneficent genii: Chryselephantine boy-god and ritual hair-offering; Intaglio types, M.M.III – L.M.II; Late hoards of sealings; Deposits of inscribed tablets and the palace stores; Linear script B and its mainland extension; Closing palatial phase – 'room of throne' and final catastrophe. With epilgue on the discovery of 'ring of Minos' and 'temple tomb' (1935)
• Index Volume: Index to the Palace of Minos by Joan Evans (1936)

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