i miss kriti

2 ani la rand am fost! 2009 va fi al treilea!
M-as obisnui cu viata de-acolo.Iasso!

Τύλος, Αρμένοι, Νιο Χωριό,
Μπρόσνερο και Καλύβες,
βγάζουν γυναίκες όμορφες
και άντρες μερακλήδες

I love Greece… Crete is my Heart

mou elipse ta xania:-(

Review by eshaem for Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Rating: I’ve read the review in the TNR which tells me that it was Robert Graves who jumped out of the window and not Laura Riding, that the White Goddess is Minoan themed, if so then Graves must have seen Minoans having dominated world culture religion and what have you all through the ages and that he wrote Good bye to all that after Riding’s window jump ooops sorry if the TNR and presumably this book say so, he was the jumper

a book that confuses the mind of the otherwise sane seeming reviewer so much that she/he makes mince meat out of my favourite author for the last almost 60 years is not for me.

BTW Graves wrote a delightful little book imagining life in a New-Crete – if one had only read that one knew that all the TNR-review comes up with is hot air of profound ignorance but the urgent desire to seem a lot more well-read than one happens to be

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Review by William T. Spont for Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Rating: This is indeed a brilliant examination of archaeological hopes and lies. What other reviewers fail to mention, however, is that the editing is horrible; it is astonishing that the superb University of Chicago Press can have sunk to this level. There are errors on almost every page: misspellings, faulty grammar, missing articles (as in “a” and “the”), poor punctuation (unnecessary commas, for example), and repeated redundancies (like “various different”). I have to give the book five stars, for the author’s sake. Many of the mistakes must be hers, but it’s the editor who should be truly embarrassed.

Review by J. A. Haverstick for Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Rating: To my luck, this book was released shortly before my planned vacation in Crete, site-not-to-be-missed being Knossos. The archeological museum was being renovated with only highlights on display. To my relief, the site was not as “restored” as the book might suggest. And most of the artifacts are not distorted either. (I do restoration for a living.) Given the overlays of interpretation of the Minoan remains (often contradictory), it was fascinating to hear the various licensed experts giving very often the same discredited spiel the author describes.

I thought this was a very good book on cultural history in the 20th cent, and the myth-making we often do with our archeology and ancient history. You can generalize this to most of the human sciences.

Review by Alvaro Lewis for Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Rating: First, this book demonstrates what clarity in academic writing is all about. The author makes a transit of nearly two hundred years in the analysis of the reception of the archaeological works on the island of Crete. Did I enjoy reading this book? Absolutely, I did. Though I enjoyed this author’s previous work on the tomb of Agamemnon more, I admire this book more for its degree of difficulty and its clarity in defiance of that difficulty. Gere accounts for Schliemann and Nietzsche, as well as De Chirico, Freud, H.D., Graves, Gimbutas and Bernal, while laying out the story of the discovery, recreation, cultivation, and reception of the ruins of Knossos. This story fascinates in part because early Cretan civilization is perceived by generation after generation as a pacific, matriarchal Eden and as a foil to war after war (the War of Greek Independence, World War I, World War II, the Cold War). Gere does a great service too in showing how this peaceful utopia was a creation of archaeologists intentionally aggrandizing some pieces of evidence while relegating the bellicose others to the heap of forgotten history. After reading this book it is my opinion that Cathy Gere is an incredibly smart historian and a gorgeous writer. This book makes a very solid contribution as a cultural history of modernity and its biased cultivation of an idyllic past.

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