| The name of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans is inextricably bound up with the excavations at the Minoan palace of Knossos and painstaking research into Minoan civilisation. The obituary honouring him in the first volume of Kretika Chronika, six years after his death, presents the major milestones in his life and work, placing them within the wider historical context of the troubled times that extended from the eve of the Cretan revolution to the outbreak of World War II. |