POSEIDON’S BULL: The Mysterious Rise and Fall of the Minoans

Book ID/图书代码： 05B09861

English Summary/英文概要： POSEIDON’S BULL: The Mysterious Rise and Fall of the Minoans. At the turn of the last century, excavations by Sir Arthur Evans proved the existence of a brilliant culture, an empire on the island of Crete, which ruled the Aegean a thousand years before Athens. Believing he had found the legendary palace of King Minos, Evans dubbed the rediscovered people "Minoans." And yet, despite Evan’s achievement, the Minoans remain shrouded in mystery. Who were they? How did they disappear? How did they build sophisticated structures with plumbing and ventilation so long before the classical structures of ancient Athens? Was it a matriarchal culture as the wall paintings suggest? Are the Minoans and the Atlanteans from the fabled Atlantis one and the same? Drawing upon myth, archaeology, science, and politics, Barrett re-imagines the story of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Minoans, possibly as a result of one or more massive tsunamis caused by the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history on the island of Thera over 3500 years ago.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 上世纪初叶，英国考古学家阿瑟·爱文斯的考古发现证实了一个辉煌文化的存在，一个位于在克利特岛上的帝国，这个王国早在雅典之前就开始统治爱琴海了，时间差不多有一千年。Evans认为自己已经发现了传说中的那个迈诺斯国王的宫殿，所以他把这个民族称之为“米诺斯人”。然而尽管Evan取得了如此重大的考古发现，米诺斯帝国仍然被重重迷雾围绕着。米诺斯人究竟是谁？他们怎么会神秘失踪的？他们又是如何比古雅典人早那么久就建造出如此精致的带有排水和通风设备的建筑物，它是不是就像壁画上表现的一样是一个母系社会呢？米诺斯人和亚特兰提斯人是不是都出自同一个虚构中的亚特兰提斯文明呢？Barrett借鉴了神话故事、考古学、科学和政治等资料，重新编织出了米诺斯文明的兴衰故事----这个文明古国的衰败很可能是在3500前发生在THERA岛上的有史以来最大的一次火山爆发所引起大规模海啸中销声匿迹的。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Nina Barrett graduated from Andover and Yale with a degree in English Literature (1981) and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her articles have appeared in many periodicals and newspapers including The Nation, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The New York Times Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and Publishers Weekly. She is the author of three previous non-fiction books: THE GIRLS: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship; THE PLAYGROUP: Three Women Contend With the Myths of Motherhood; and I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD Me: A Realistic Guide to Early Motherhood, all originally published by Simon & Schuster. All three of Nina’s previous books examine the question of why women live the kinds of lives they do; how they perceive and respond to cultural and personal pressure to make certain choices; what rules they think they ought to follow and what happens when they flout them. Both THE GIRLS and THE PLAYGROUP have strong dramatic narratives, and both have been optioned, multiple times, for film; mostly recently THE PLAYGROUP by Robert Greenwald productions. She is currently a manager at Women & Children First, the country’s largest feminist bookstore, in Chicago. Nina Barrett毕业于Andover和耶鲁大学，获得英语文学学士学位，并获得西北大学的梅迪尔新闻学院新闻系硕士学位。她的文章出现在很多期刊和报纸上《克利夫兰老实人报》、《纽约时报杂志》、《芝加哥论坛报》、《出版人周刊》。他曾经撰写了三部作品：《女孩呀：一个讲述终身友谊的真实故事》；《我真希望有人早点告诉我：怎样过早为人母》； NINA以前的作品分析了女性怎样会这样生活：以及女性如何审视和回应文化和个人压力从而做出相应的抉择；女性该遵从哪些规则，要是他们对此嗤之以鼻的话，那后果又会怎样。

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