Ariadne's Brother

This is a vivid tale of action and the love of life, of conflict and passionate vision and political change at the dawn of Western Civilization. Ariadne -the Queen, sister, and beloved of the narrator, prince Deucalion- struggles to uphold her family's and her people's ways against a world of the new threats and challenges, at home and abroad, in the final days of Minoan Crete.

Through its powerful characters and plot, through the natural beauties and spirituality of Aegean civilization, its eroticism, battles and catastrophes, Ariadne's Brother brings together myth and four decades of fresh evidence to create new understanding of "the first major cultural turn" i Western history.