MR
visited the Ashmolean Museum
while she was an undergraduate, and its Keeper, Sir Arthur Evans
, introduced her to replicas of his major discoveries including the Cretan Bull-leaper. The Museum also featured an extensive...
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Harvard University Press, 2000.
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1899-1907
Sir Arthur Evans
carried out excavations at Knossos in Crete, the palace famed in Greek myth as the site of Theseus' victory over the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne.
1952
Michael Ventris
first deciphered the Linear B script used in ancient Mycenean tablets discovered fifty years earlier by Sir Arthur Evans
at Knossos in Crete.