Builder of Ruins
Mary Beard: Arthur Evans, 30 November 2000
Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
by J.A. MacGillivray.
Cape, 313 pp., £20, August 2000,0 224 04352 8 Show More
by J.A. MacGillivray.
Cape, 313 pp., £20, August 2000,
“... of ruins’ (as one French newspaper called him) on the site itself. In Minotaur, J.A. MacGillivray quotes the reaction of R.G. Collingwood, who declared that ‘the first impression on the mind of a visitor is that Knossian architecture consists of garages and public lavatories.’ There were plenty of other comments along similar lines. It was ... ”
