The Dawn of Genius: The Minoan Super-Civilization and the Truth about Atlantis

The modern world looks back towards Ancient Greece for the start of its philosophy, for the origins of its science and even for the foundations of its excursion into democracy. But is this either correct or fair? Was there something long, long before the City States of Greece flirted with geometry, astronomy and inclusive politics from which Greece itself developed, merely as a pale reflection?

Alan Butler has put together his most exhaustive and yet most compelling presentation of how we…