Resources and Information

Books

  Author(s): Jack L. Davis, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine.
  Title: A Guide to the Palace of Nestor, Mycenaean Sites in its Environs and The Chora Museum.
  Year: 2001
  Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  Published in: Athens


  Author(s): Jack L. Davis (Ed.).
  Title: Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino
  Year: 1998
  Publisher: University of Texas Press
  Published in: Austin


  Author(s): Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew.
  Title: Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their Time
  Year: 1999
  Publisher: Kapon Editions
  Published in: Athens
on Minoan food and drink etc.

Online references

  Knossos site

  Knossos (Graeco-Roman) encyclopedia entry

Books

  Author(s): Sarah P. Morris.
  Title: Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
  Year: 1992
  Publisher: Princeton University Press
  Published in: Princeton
Information on Archaic Cretan art.

  Author(s): Ian F. Sanders.
  Title: Roman Crete
  Year: 1982
  Publisher: Aris and Phillips
  Published in: Warminster, Wiltshire
  Page(s): Pp 63-7, 71-80, 108-14, 156-9 on Gortyn


  Author(s): James Whitley.
  Title: The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
  Year: 2001
  Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  Published in: Cambridge
  Page(s): 243-52 on <b>Archaic</b> Cretan cities, including the Gortyn law code.

Online references

  Encyclopaedia entry on Gortyn

  Encyclopaedia entry on Gortyn (mirror)

  Site of Gortyn

  Gortyn, Italian excavations

(In Italian; follow link from 'scavi')

  Gortyn images (including coins)

  Gortyn images (including coins) (mirror)

  Beazley Archive (40 Archaic-Classical pots in its database with a Cretan provenance)

Books

  Author(s): Michalis Andrianakis.
  Title: The Old City of Hania
  Year: 2000
  Publisher: Adam Editions


  Author(s): Maria Andreadakis-Vlasakis.
  Title: The County of Khania through its Monuments
  Year: 1997
  Publisher: Ministry of Culture Archaeological Receipts Fund
  Published in: Athens
Includes Prehistoric and Graeco-Roman Khania

  Author(s): Tony Fennymore.
  Title: Fenny’s Hania: A Companion to Fenny’s Guided Walking Tour of Hania Old Town
  Year: 2000
  Publisher: Fenny's Crete
  Published in: Khania


  Author(s): Michael Herzfeld.
  Title: A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
  Year: 1991
  Publisher: Princeton University Press
  Published in: Princeton, N.J.
Information on Rethymno

Online references

  Greek-Swedish Prehistoric excavations

  Kydonia (Graeco-Roman Khania) encyclopedia entry

  Kydonia (Graeco-Roman Khania) encyclopedia (mirror)

  Icon collection of St Catherine of Sinai, Herakleion

  Icons of Cretan School, Collection of St Matthew of Sinai, Herakleion (though no images)

  Etz Hayyim synagogue in Khania

  Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Museum of Khania

  Museum of Cretan Ethnology, Voroi

  Historical Museum of Crete, Herakleion

  Historical and Folk Art Museum of Rethymno

  19th century monuments of Khania, for comparison