due to the fact its rediscovery within the early twentieth century, via brilliant unearths akin to these through Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the mind's eye not just of archaeologists but additionally of a much wider public. this can be proven, between different issues, by way of its visual appeal and makes use of in numerous smooth cultural practices: from the leading edge dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn, to public and vernacular structure, psychoanalysis, literature, sculpture, model designs, or even neo-pagan hobbies, to say a couple of examples.Cretomania is the 1st quantity solely dedicated to such glossy responses to (and makes use of of) the Minoan prior. even supposing now not an exhaustive and systematic learn of the reception of Minoan Crete, it deals quite a lot of fascinating examples and represents an unique contribution to a to this point underexplored point of Minoan reviews: the awesome results of Minoan Crete past the slim barriers of recondite archaeological research.The quantity is organised in 3 major sections: the 1st bargains with the unsleeping, subconscious, and coincidental allusions to Minoan Crete in sleek structure, and likewise discusses archaeological reconstructions; the second one offers examples from the visible and appearing arts (as good as different cultural practices) illustrating how Minoan Crete has been enlisted to discover and problem questions of Orientalism, faith, sexuality, and gender family; the 3rd makes a speciality of literature, and indicates how the far-off Minoan previous has been used to interrogate severely newer Greek history.