It's the ancients on History Hit.

I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast we are talking all about the Minoans.

We're going to be focusing in on who the Minoans were, we're going to be talking about

the city, the urban center of Knozos.

But we're also going to be focusing largely on the rediscovery of the Minoans in the

early 20th century and how the Minoans civilization, it has been used to symbolise, to signify different

things to different people over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st century.

From Freud to Flower Power to the BBC series at Atlantis, we're going to be covering all

of that and more.

Now join me on the pod stage talk through all of this.

I was delighted to head up to Oxford a few weeks back to interview Professor Nicoletta Momigliano.

Nico, she is one of the leading experts on the Minoans in the UK.

It was a pleasure to chat to her all about this, all about the legacy of the Minoans.

And she also recently featured on a History Hit documentary all about this called In Search

of the Minoans.

So without further ado, here's Nico.

Nico, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast today.

Thank you for inviting me.

It's always a pleasure to talk about the Minoans.

Right now in the Minoans and actually I had no idea how much interest, how much almost

an obsession, this critomania there's been since the rediscovery of the Minoans almost

a century ago, it's phenomenal.

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