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Arthur Evans
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Arthur Evans was a homosexual graduate student in philosophy at Columbia University who was politicized by the student uprisings that rocked Columbia during the spring of 1968. After the Stonewall Riots the next year he became involved with Manhattan's fledgling Gay Liberation Front, and he helped establish the Gay Activist Alliance to supercede GLF. Then in the early 70s, Evans moved to San Francisco and, still the scholar, in 1973 began publishing articles on his own researched, philosophized and radicalized vision of gay history. In 1975 he and some friends formed a small pagan-inspired ritual group called "the Faery Circle" to act out the ecstatic pansexual revels he believed he had uncovered in the hidden past of Western Europe. In 1976 Evans gave a series of public lectures on his research, and in 1978 published his influential book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture.
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From the marriage certificate it was discovered that Arthur Evans senior was a tram conductor at that time. 1872 saw the first horse drawn trams running through the streets. Steam trams arrived in 1883 followed by electric trams by the 1920s. It may well have been one of these trams on which Arthur, was a conductor. Trams would have started out early in the mornings to transport people to their places of work. Most people had to be in work by about 6AM so Arthur would have set off even earlier when no trams or busses were running.
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In the restorative work, Arthur Evans faced an unusual dilemma. The palace of Knossos had crumbled around 1380 B.C., succumbing to one of the catastrophic earthquakes that devastate Crete three or four times each century. Much of the original limestone used for walls and columns had disintegrated from rain and sun. Timber beams and ceilings had likewise vanished. Evan's solution--the use of reinforced concrete to replace the missing members--made him a controversial figure. Some of his critics derisively said that he had produced a "concrete Crete."
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The year 2000 marks the centenary of the start of excavations at the site of Knossos on Crete, the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation which its excavator, Arthur Evans, called 'Minoan' after King Minos of Greek legend. The palace which he uncovered there was originally decorated with frescoed wall paintings, some of them showing figured scenes, which mostly survived only in a fragmentary and incomplete state. One of the most striking fresco images, and one which particularly engaged Evans's imagination, is the controversial figure of the Priest-King, whom Evans regarded as a portrayal of one of the priestly rulers of Knossos. This booklet gives an account of the history of its discovery, its re-creation and the important part it played in Evans's vision of Knossos.
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Arthur Evans was born in 1942 in York, Pennsylvania, and attended Brown University after graduating from high school. At Brown, he described his circle of friends as 'militant atheists' combating the harmful effects of organised religion. Although he had known that he was gay from about the age of ten he remained closeted until he read that many homosexuals lived in Greenwich Village, New York. He dropped out of Brown University and moved to Greenwich Village in 1963 and became the lover of Arthur Bell. Arthur Evans resumed his studies at City College of New York, graduating with a philosphy degree in 1967. He began a doctoral program in Greek philosophy at Columbia University and became active in anti-war and gay civil rights protests.
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Arthur Evans, who discovered the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete, was born in Hertfordshire, England. The son of John Evans, a distinguished antiquary and collector, Arthur was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he took a first-class honours degree in history. After spending time in the Balkans, he returned to Oxford and became Director of the Ashmolean Museum, a post he held from 1884-1908. During this time he effectively re-founded the museum, and added considerably to its collections.
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