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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Charlotte Higgins
List of Illustrations
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Europa
The cedarwood box
Lost in the midst
The edge
Immured between hedges
The biformed labyrinth
The by-street
The vanishing labyrinth
The most monstrous work of mankind
Peliaco quondam
Dictys of Crete
Odysseus the source
Odysseus the liar
Epimenides of Crete
Cretan lies
Pendlebury of Crete
Arthur Evans and the Minoans
The Ring of Nestor
Heraklion, 2016
Knossos, 2016
Ariadne’s clewe
Time’s labyrinth
The riddle of the knot in the beard
Turning away
Umberto Eco’s labyrinth
The Figure in the Carpet
The Middle of The Turn of the Screw
Passe avaunt
Laocoön
Michelangelo and Laocoön
Ransacking the city
Laocoöns
Virgil’s Troy
Troy Town
Maze-maker
How to find your way
Follow the finger that points
Cretto di Burri
The wilderness of the streets
Troy Town, Peckham
The arms of Laocoön
Eva Hesse’s Laocoön
Spiral Jetty
Ariadne on Naxos
Cleopatra-Ariadne
De Chirico’s Ariadnes
Ariadne asleep
A Minotaur in Middlemarch
Buried alive
Eliot’s web
Ovid’s spider
Spinners
Looking at Ariadne
Ariadne on Naxos II
Tensawalls
Ravenna
Lost in the midst
Borges in Stoke
Forking paths
Underground
Arnold Bennett in the Underworld
Loop Line
Thinkbelt
Dante’s Minotaur
Rubens’s Minotaur
The wand’ring wood
Mazed world
In the woods
Out of the woods
The doors of Daedalus
Picasso’s Minotaurs
Pastoral interlude
Minotauromachy
Minotaur
Seven ways to kill the Minotaur
Theseus the hero
Pictures at an exhibition, Rome, 1 March 2017
An edge
Bacchus and Ariadne
Ariadne
Coda:
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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