Resources and Information

Books

For some extracts from the writings of 18th - 19th century travellers on Crete (Edward Lear, Captain Spratt, Richard Pococke and Robert Pashley) see:

  Author(s): Johan de Bakker.
  Title: Across Crete – Part 1: From Khania (Chania) to Herakleion
  Year: 2001
  Publisher: Logos Tekstproducties
  Published in: Amsterdam
  ISBN: 90-806150-1-3
The book can be ordered via www.logostext.com, which includes two extracts.

  Author(s): Rowena Fowler.
  Title: Edward Lear: The Cretan Journal
  Year: 1984
  Publisher: Denise Harvey
  Published in: Athens
Alternate edition:

  Author(s): Rowena Fowler.
  Title: Edward Lear: The Cretan Journal
  Year: 1984
  Publisher: Denise Harvey
  Published in: Dedham


  Author(s): Robert Pashley.
  Title: Travels in Crete (2 volumes)
  Year: 1837
  Publisher: John Murray
  Published in: London
Alternate edition:

  Author(s): Robert Pashley.
  Title: Travels in Crete (2 volumes, reprinted)
  Year: 1970
  Publisher: Hakkert
  Published in: Amsterdam


  Author(s): Richard Jenkyns.
  Title: The Victorians and Ancient Greece
  Year: 1980
  Publisher: Blackwell
  Published in: Oxford
Useful for the English cultural background.
Alternate publisher:

  Author(s): Richard Jenkyns.
  Title: The Victorians and Ancient Greece
  Year: 1980
  Publisher: Harvard University Press
  Published in: Cambridge, Mass
Useful for the English cultural background.


  Author(s): H. Walter Lack, David J. Mabberley.
  Title: The Flora Graeca Story: Sibthorp, Bauer and Hawkins in the Levant
  Year: 1999
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
  Published in: Oxford


  Author(s): Richard Stoneman.
  Title: Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece
  Year: 1987
  Publisher: Hutchinson
  Published in: London
  Page(s): 136-64, on travellers.
Alternate publisher:

  Author(s): Richard Stoneman.
  Title: Land of Lost Gods: The Search for Classical Greece
  Year: 1987
  Publisher: Norman
  Published in: University of Oaklahoma Press
  Page(s): Pp 136-64, on travellers.


  Author(s): Fani-Maria Tsigakou.
  Title: The Rediscovery of Greece: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era
  Year: 1981
  Publisher: Caratzas
  Published in: New Rochelle NY
Alternate publisher:

  Author(s): Fani-Maria Tsigakou.
  Title: The Rediscovery of Greece: Travellers and Painters of the Romantic Era
  Year: 1981
  Publisher: Thames and Hudson
  Published in: London


  Author(s): Peter Warren.
  Article title: 16th, 17th and 18th century British travellers in Crete
  Journal title: Kritika Chronika
  Year: 1972
  Volume: 24
  Page(s): 65 to 92 (with some extracts)

Books

  Author(s): J. Lesley Fitton.
  Title: The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age
  Year: 1995
  Publisher: British Museum Press
  Published in: London
Alternate publisher

  Author(s): J. Lesley Fitton.
  Title: The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age
  Year: 1996
  Publisher: Harvard U. P.
  Published in: Cambridge, Mass.

Schliemann

  Author(s): William A. MacDonald, Carol G. Thomas.
  Title: Progress into the Past: The Rediscovery of the Mycenaean Civilisation (2nd Edition)
  Year: 1990
  Publisher: Indiana University Press
  Published in: Bloomington


  Author(s): George Mylonas.
  Title: Mycenae Rich in Gold
  Year: 1983
  Publisher: Ekdotike Athenon
  Published in: Athens


  Author(s): Lord William Taylour.
  Title: The Mycenaeans (2nd Edition)
  Year: 1983
  Publisher: Thames and Hudson
  Published in: London

Evans

  Author(s): Ann Brown.
  Title: Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos
  Year: 1983
  Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
  Published in: Oxford


  Author(s): Ann Brown.
  Title: Before Knossos: Arthur Evans’s Travels in the Balkans and Crete
  Year: 1993
  Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
  Published in: Oxford


  Author(s): Joan Evans.
  Title: Time and Chance: the Story of Arthur Evans and his Forbears
  Year: 1943
  Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
  Published in: London and New York
Reprint:

  Author(s): Joan Evans.
  Title: Time and Chance: the Story of Arthur Evans and his Forbears (reprint)
  Year: 1974
  Publisher: Greenwood Press
  Published in: Westport, Connecticut


  Author(s): Alexandre Farnou.
  Title: Knossos: Unearthing a Legend
  Year: 1996
  Publisher: Thames and Hudson
  Published in: London


  Author(s): Sylvia L. Horowitz.
  Title: The Find of Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
  Year: 1981
  Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  Published in: London
Alternate publisher:

  Author(s): Sylvia L. Horowitz.
  Title: The Find of Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos
  Year: 1981
  Publisher: Viking Press
  Published in: New York


  Author(s): Davina Huxley (ed.).
  Title: Cretan Quests: British Explorers, Excavators and Historians
  Year: 2000
  Publisher: British School at Athens
  Published in: London


  Author(s): Dilys Powell.
  Title: The Villa Ariadne
  Year: 1973
  Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
  Published in: London

Online references

  Project Troia (current work at Troy, under the direction of Dr. Manfred Korfmann)

  The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, unit on Troy VI:

  Hellenic (i.e. Greek) Ministry of Culture

  Melina Mercouri Foundation of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (promoting the return of the Parthenon Marbles)

Cretan archaeological museums

  Archaeological Museum of Khania

  Archaeological Museum of Herakleion

  Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos

  Archaeological Museum of Hierapetra

  Archaeological Museum of Rethymnon

  Archaeological Museum of Siteia

Books

  Author(s): Pamela Armstrong.
  Article title: Bacini from Venetian Crete in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
  Journal title: Oxford Journal of Archaeology
  Year: Not yet published



  Author(s): Nino Chatzidakis.
  Title: Icons of the Cretan School
  Year: 1983
  Publisher: Benaki Museum
  Published in: Athens


  Author(s): Robin Cormack.
  Title: Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons
  Year: 1985
  Publisher: George Philip
  Published in: London


  Author(s): Robin Cormack.
  Title: Painting the Soul. Icons, Death Masks, and Shrouds
  Year: 1997
  Publisher: Reaktion Books
  Published in: London
  Page(s): Ch. 5, pp 167-217, on the transformation of late Byzantine icon painting in Venetian Crete, i.e., the transition from Mediaeval to Renaissance.


  Author(s): Robin Cormack.
  Title: Byzantine Art
  Year: 2000
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
  Published in: Oxford


  Author(s): Giuseppe Gerola.
  Title: Monumenti veneti nell' isola di Creta
  Year: 1905-32
  Publisher: Instituto Veneto di sci., lett. ed arti.
  Published in: Venice


  Author(s): K. Kalokryis.
  Title: The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete
  Year: 1973
  Publisher: Red Dust
  Published in: New York
For pictures.

  Author(s): Peter Lock (ed.), G. D. R. Sanders (ed.).
  Title: The Archaeology of Mediaeval Greece (Oxbow Monograph 59)
  Year: 1996
  Publisher: Oxbow Books
  Published in: Oxford