Reviews

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of Minoan Myth

Joseph Alexander MacGillivray (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000) 373 pp., $30

Duncan Mackenzie: A Cautious Canny Highlander & the Palace of Minos at Knossos

Nicoletta Momigliano (London: University of London, 1999) 231 pp., $80

In the year 1900, two very different personalities converged on the site of ancient Knossos on the island of Crete: the maverick English archaeological enthusiast Arthur Evans and a Scottish field archaeologist and scholar named Duncan Mackenzie, who was to work as Evans’s assistant.

Unlike the flamboyant Evans, Mackenzie has remained largely in the shadows of history—and Nicoletta Momigliano has done a great service in recovering his life from the “meagre scraps” of available information.