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Aegean civilization

MacGillivray, Joseph Alexander. Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth. Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 2000. MacGillivray, an archaeologist who has worked in Crete, offers a portrait of a mean-spirited Evans whose scholarship was questionable.

Castleden, Rodney. Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete. Routledge, 1990, 1993. A controversial analysis of Minoan culture.

Chadwick, John. The Mycenaean World. Cambridge University Press, 1976. Chadwick's interpretation of the Linear B tablets.

Fitton, J. Lesley. The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age. Harvard University Press, 1996. An account of archaeological discoveries and discoverers.

Osborne, Robin. Greece in the Making 1200-479 B.C. Routledge, 1996. A well-illustrated and informative survey of early Greece.

Preziosi, Donald, and Louise Hitchcock. Aegean Art and Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2000. Survey of archaeological findings and art objects on Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands.

Taylour, William. The Myceanaeans. Rev. ed. Thames & Hudson, 1990. The rise and fall of Bronze Age Greece.

Wood, Michael. In Search of the Trojan War. University of California Press, 1998. An archaeological investigation into the historical basis of the Trojan War. For general audiences.

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