Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements, Farnoux and Momigliano / Introduction, Momigliano / Part 1 Cretomania and The Built Environment - Conscious, Unconscious, and Coincidental Allusions in Modern Architecture and Reconstructions: Orthochronicity and its (dis)contents: Cretomania and Frank Lloyd Wright, Preziosi / Identity and freedom: some observations on Minoan and contemporary Greek architecture, Philippides and Sgouros / The artistic reception of Minoan Crete in the period of Art Déco. The reconstruction of the palace at Knossos … and why Arthur Evans was right, Blakolmer / Part 2 Cretomania in the Visual and Performing Arts, and Other Cultural Practices: The Minoan woman as the Oriental woman: Mariano Fortuny’s Knossos scarves and Ruth St. Denis, Caloi / From Russia with love: Minoan Crete and the Russian Silver Age, Momigliano / Lord of the Dance: Ted Shawn’s Gnossienne and its Minoan context, Morris / The ocean-liner Aramis: a voyage to the land of Minos and Art Deco, Boucher / Cretomania and Neo-paganism: the Great Mother Goddess and gay male identity in the Minoan Brotherhood, Burns / Part 3 Cretomania in Literature - Dialogues with Rhea Galanaki: Minoans and the postmodern critique of national history: two novels by Rhea Galanaki, Beaton / Rhea Galanaki’s The Century of the Labyrinths: a dialogue between literature and archaeology that starts with Minos Kalokairinos, Kopaka / Growing up next door to Knossos and ‘The Other Ariadne’, Galanaki / Afterword; Afterthoughts, Fotiadis.