Resources and Information

Books

  Author(s): William R. Biers.
  Title: The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
  Year: 1996
  Edition: 2nd
  Publisher: Cornell University Press
  Published in: Ithaca
General introduction to ancient Greek material culture.
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  Author(s): William R. Biers.
  Title: The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
  Year: 1996
  Edition: 2nd
  Publisher: Cornell University Press
  Published in: London
General introduction to ancient Greek material culture.

  Author(s): Theocharis E. Detorakis.
  Title: History of Crete
  Year: 1994
  Published in: Herakleion
  Page(s): 39-108, 109-437


  Author(s): Oliver T.P.K. Dickinson.
  Title: The Aegean Bronze Age
  Year: 1994
  Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  Published in: Cambridge
Useful for reference.

  Author(s): Yannis Hamilakis (ed.).
  Title: Labyrinth Revisted. Rethinking ‘Minoan’ Archaeology
  Year: 2002
  Publisher: Oxbow
  Published in: Oxford


  Author(s): David Holton (ed.).
  Title: Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete
  Year: 1991
  Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  Published in: Cambridge


  Author(s): W. Miller.
  Title: Essays on the Latin Orient
  Year: 1921
  Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  Published in: Cambridge
  Page(s): 177-98 on Crete under the Venetians


  Author(s): Jan Morris.
  Title: The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage (republished)
  Year: 1990
  Publisher: Penguin
  Published in: Harmondsworth
Includes Venetian Crete

  Author(s): J.D.S. Pendlebury.
  Title: The Archaeology of Crete
  Year: 1939
  Publisher: Methuen
  Published in: London


  Author(s): Ian F. Sanders.
  Title: Roman Crete
  Year: 1982
  Publisher: Aris and Phillips
  Published in: Warminster


  Author(s): Michael Llewellyn Smith.
  Title: The Great Island: A Study of Crete
  Year: 1965
  Publisher: Longmans
  Published in: London
The best starting point on Venetian Crete.

  Author(s): Dimitris Tsougarakis.
  Title: Byzantine Crete from the 5th Century to the Venetian Conquest
  Year: 1988
  Publisher: Historical Publications St. D. Basilopoulos
  Published in: Athens


  Author(s): Peter M. Warren.
  Title: The Aegean Civilisations from Ancient Crete to Mycenae
  Year: 1975
  Publisher: Phaidon
  Published in: Oxford
Good, illustrated introduction.

  Author(s): Ronald F. Willetts.
  Title: Cretan Cults and Festivals
  Year: 1962
  Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  Published in: London
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  Author(s): Ronald F. Willetts.
  Title: Cretan Cults and Festivals
  Year: 1962
  Publisher: Barnes and Noble
  Published in: New York


  Author(s): Ronald F. Willetts.
  Title: Ancient Crete: A Social History from Early Times to the Roman Occupation
  Year: 1965
  Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  Published in: London
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  Author(s): Ronald F. Willetts.
  Title: Ancient Crete: A Social History from Early Times to the Roman Occupation
  Year: 1965
  Publisher: University of Toronto
  Published in: Toronto

Online References

For an introduction to radiocarbon dating see T. Higham, (1999):

Radiocarbon web-info

Historical Background: an online course on the Aegean Bronze Age by Jerry Rutter. This includes sections on Cretan Prehistory.

  The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean

  Archaeological Museum of Khania

  Archaeological Museum of Herakleion

  Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos

  Encyclopaedia entry on Crete

  Archaeological Museum of Hierapetra.

  Site of Gortyn

  Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Museum of Khania

  Collection of St Catherine of Sinai (Herakleion)

  Icons of Cretan School, Collection of St Matthew of Sinai, Herakleion

  Museum of Cretan Ethnology, Voroi

  Historical Museum of Crete, Herakleion

  Historical and Folk Art Museum of Rethymno

Books

  Author(s): Oliver Rackham, Jennifer Moody.
  Title: The Making of the Cretan Landscape
  Year: 1996
  Publisher: Manchester University Press
  Published in: Manchester

  Author(s): John Chadwick.
  Title: Linear B and Related Scripts
  Year: 1987
  Publisher: British Museum Publications
  Published in: London

Online References

Abstracts, with numerous illustrations, of conference on beekeeping on Crete and elsewhere:

  Bee-keeping in the Graeco-Roman World

International Bee Research Association, founded in 1949 by Eva Crane, the greatest scholar in the field of beekeeping:

  International Bee Research Association

On the issue of reporting back by archaeologists to their informants, see Lucia Nixon, 'Seeing Voices and Changing Relationships: Film, Archaeological Reporting, and the Landscape of People in Sphakia', American Journal of Archaeology 105.1 (January 2001), 77-97

  American Journal of Archaeology

Online References

  Akropolis, Athens

  Numerous images of the Akropolis

  Gortyn Web site

  Canada Centre for Remote Sensing