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  • NEOLITHIC BRITAIN
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    NEOLITHIC BRITAIN
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    The climax of the Stone Age in Britain, the Neolithic period (4700-2000BC), was a period of startling achievement. The British Isles are rich in Neolithic sites, which give us evidence of a complex and surprisingly developed archaic society. The author surveys 1100 secular and ceremonial sites in Britain, selecting some for detailed explanation; from these a sense of the divers...

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  • THE KNOSSOS LABYRINTH
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    THE KNOSSOS LABYRINTH
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth centur...

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  • THE MYCENAEANS
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    THE MYCENAEANS
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    Following on from Rodney Castleden's best-selling study Minoans, this major contribution to our understanding of the crucial Mycenaean period clearly and effectively brings together research and knowledge we have accumulated since the discovery of the remains of the civilization of Mycenae in the 1870s. In lively prose, informed by the latest research and using a full bibliogra...

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  • KING ARTHUR
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    KING ARTHUR
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    King Arthur is often written off as a medieval fantasy, the dream of those yearning for an age of strong, just rulers and a contented kingdom. Those who accept his existence at all generally discard the stories that surround him. This exciting new investigation argues not only that Arthur did exist, as a Dark Age chieftain, but that many of the romantic tales - of Merlin, Camel...

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  • THE MAKING OF STONEHENGE
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    THE MAKING OF STONEHENGE
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    Every generation has created its own interpretation of Stonehenge, but rarely do these relate to the physical realities of the monument. Rodney Castleden begins with those elements which made possible the building of this vast stone circle: the site, the materials and the society that undertook the enormous task of transporting and raising the great vertical stones, then cappin...

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  • THE STONEHENGE PEOPLE
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    THE STONEHENGE PEOPLE
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    First published in 1990. Of all the monuments left by the past, Stonehenge is the most evocative, the most memorable and the most mysterious. Whilst the monuments of other cultures have gradually surrendered their mysteries, Stonehenge alone seems to stimulate endless conjecture. Rodney Castleden's vivid presentation of the world of the megaliths answers many of the most baffli...

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  • MINOANS
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    MINOANS
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these na...

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  • ATLANTIS DESTROYED
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    ATLANTIS DESTROYED
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the absurdest lie in literature. Atlantis Destroyed explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically true. Rodney Castleden first considers the location of Atlantis re-examining two suggestions put forward in the early twentieth century; Minoan Crete and Minoan Thera. He outlines the lates...

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  • THE ATTACK ON TROY
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    THE ATTACK ON TROY
    RODNEY CASTLEDEN
    "A most insightful treatment of the seemingly mythic events that make up part of the foundation of Western history . . . an excellent book." —The NYMAS Review  Thirty-three hundred years ago, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and th...

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