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With the help of the princess Ariadne and other friends in the palace at Crete, Theseus enters the Labyrinth and slays the hideous Minotaur, thus spearheading the resistance of the Athenian people against King Minos. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 219 pages
Publisher: Ohio University Press (April 30, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821408801
ISBN-13: 978-0821408803
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars at the palaces of knossos, April 4, 2000

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This novel derives from a series of stories written byKazantzakis for a youth's magazine. The novel utilizes Kazantzakis'graceful style to add even more magic to this fantastic myth. In the beginning, a young traveler is found surveying the grounds of the Palace of Knossos, raising suspicions with security guards and catching the eye of the young princess Ariadne. The young traveller turns out to be Theseus, a prince who desires to free his people from the tyranical King. Included is the infamous minotaur and many greek gods. This novel remains interesting and exciting all throughout the story, and can be recommended to any age group. END

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5.0 out of 5 stars All the Elements of a Classic, June 2, 2004

By	Shelley Ashfield (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

How do you write a "children's" book that will hold readers' interest 50, 100 years from now? James Barrie, Francis Hodgson Burnett, and Terry Pratchett have. So has Nikos Kazantzakis.
This book is a gem, and deserves much wider recognition.
Mythology is usually presented, even in the much-lauded D'Aulaire series, as little more than a plot line. Here, the familiar story of Theseus and the Minotaur is enriched with well-developed characters. My favorite is Princess Ariadne: as imperious, sensitive, and curious as Elizabeth Tudor in her youth. Kazantzakis describes the splendors of the Minoan city-palace as lushly as one can infer from the historical artifacts that have been unearthed, then he enriches the picture with details of folkways that still exist today in Greece.
What raises this book from the merely entertaining to the classic is the author's dedication to his real mission: to impart the great truths of the world to his young readers. In the Palaces of Knossos, we learn a little about the nature of despotism, and how to test the long-term viability of a civilization beyond the veneer of its present power and wealth.
Teachers and parents, read this wonderful book, and be awed and entertained yourself before you read it to your kids. While you're at it, bring out a book like BBC's Civilizations by Jane McIntosh and Clint Twist so your charges can see the strange and beautiful paintings from the palace of Knossos of bull-leaping youths, the bronze dagger that Theseus himself might have carried, and one of the odd little iconic statues of the Great Goddess worshipped throughout ancient Crete.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and full of errors, April 9, 2009

By	camisdad "camisdad" (Berkeley, CA, United States) - See all my reviews

"At the palaces of Knossos" is a far cry from Nikos Kazantzakis' rich and exuberant style, which is unrecognizable in this book.

The prose is poor and stilted, to the degree that you have to wonder if a ghost writer was used for this story. The message is truly simple-minded, opposing the "decadent" Minoans and the "youthful" Athenians in such a black-and-white manner that you feel ashamed for the writer. As for the atmosphere, it feels like a modern story, and does nothing to try and describe what the Minoan civilization must have been.

The research is atrocious, full of anachronisms and errors. A couple of examples:
- in the book, Phaedra is Ariadne's older sister. Phaedra really is the younger sister;
- in the book, young Theseus gives a gift of a cup engraved with an image of Odysseus. In actuality (if he really did exist), Odysseus came in a generation later than Theseus and would not have been born then.

I could go on for a long time. I bought this book to give my pre-teenage son good reading material before visiting Crete. After reading it, I am tossing it and giving my son "The king must die", by Mary Renault, an infinitely better book on the topic.

In conclusion: avoid this book at all costs. It would be a disservice to give this book to a young reader, as it will foster wrong information and impressions about the times.

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