IMAGINED PASTS: Arthur Evans,

Balkan Identities, and the Discovery

of a Lost “European” Civilization

Dissertation Prospectus PresentationArna ElezovicJune 6, 2016

Faces of people encountered on a voyage through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Drawing by Arthur Evans, 1875.

Source: Part of collection donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum by Joan Evans, biographer and half-sister of the archaeologist, in 1941.

‘Here is a Greek Christian girl that we saw at a well, and who graciously allowed us to slake our thirst from the bucket she had just drawn up.’

Source: Drawing by Arthur Evans, 1875, published in Walk Through Bosnia and Hercegovina, p. 96

Painting by Emil Jakob Schindler “Blick auf Ragusa” 1890

Arthur and Margaret Evans, June 22, 1888Source: Family history website at http://hubbardplus.co.uk/evans/default.html

Detail from the travel diary of Arthur Evans during his visit to Crete in 1896. From the Arthur Evans Archive at the Ashmolean Museum

http://sirarthurevans.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/archive/

Knossos, on the island of Crete, Greece

Source: Images from lecture delivered by Yannis Galanakis, "Knossos: From Labyrinth To Laboratory" on Saturday 12 November, 2011

Charging bull fragments were found in 1900, and a replica was erected in 1930 in the West Portico, by North Entrance.

Ann Brown, Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos Oxford: Ashmolean Publications, 1983), p. 56.

Bull-leaping fresco now in the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete.

Bull jumper fragments and reconstruction