Translated from french by Grok

The book is structured around four main parts. The first one is titled **The Gods**. It covers topics such as: Crete, the homeland of the gods; The birth of Zeus in the Cretan cave; The era of Kronos and the Titans of Knossos; Zeus’s upbringing; The navel of Zeus; The first loves in Crete; The marriage with Hera in Knossos…

The second part, **Minos and His Descendants**, deals with: Zeus and Europa; Talos, the sun of Crete; The famous Cretan hound; Minos, the renowned king of Crete; Rhadamanthus the just; Sarpedon; The Cretans of Asia Minor; The Labyrinth and the myth of the Minotaur; The Cretan bull; Theseus in Crete; Daedalus the Cretan; The Hephaestus of Crete; Daedalus, Icarus, and the murder of Minos; The myth of Idomeneus…

The third part, **Other Myths**, complements the previous sections by exploring: The golden dog of Zeus; Cretan colonies in Asia Minor; The ephebe of Olympus; The myth of Ganymede; Zeus, Minos, and the abduction; Crete without wild beasts and without venomous snakes…

Finally, the fourth part focuses on **Local Traditions**: The giants of Crete; The battle of the Muses and the Sirens; Founders of Cretan cities…

Why list all these topics covered in the book? First, because currently there is only a Greek edition available, and second, to try to convey the dizzying, overwhelming feeling the reader experiences when picking up this Cretan labyrinth in their hands.

Everything about this book inspires admiration: the iconography is stunning, the presentation is excellent, but above all, it’s the author’s thinking that is the most captivating.

Clear and scholarly, fluid and erudite, capable of drawing on our readings of the Linear B tablets—in the same vein as Paul Faure’s approach in his book *Ulysses the Cretan*—it guides the reader through this mythological labyrinth, like Ariadne’s thread, straight to the very essence of the Cretan cosmos.

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