W. H. Matthews
Mazes and Labyrinths
A General Account of Their History and Development
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066120627
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II THE EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH (i) Accounts of the Ancient Writers
CHAPTER III THE EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH (continued) (ii) Accounts of Later Explorers
CHAPTER IV THE CRETAN LABYRINTH (i) The Story of Theseus and the Minotaur
CHAPTER V THE CRETAN LABYRINTH (continued) (ii) The Caverns of Gortyna
CHAPTER VI THE CRETAN LABYRINTH (continued) (iii) Knossos
CHAPTER VII THE ETRUSCAN OR ITALIAN LABYRINTH
CHAPTER VIII THE LABYRINTH IN ANCIENT ART
CHAPTER XI TURF LABYRINTHS (continued)
CHAPTER XII THE ORIGIN OF TURF MAZES
CHAPTER XIII THE FLORAL LABYRINTH AND THE DWARF-SHRUB MAZE
CHAPTER XIV THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE
CHAPTER XV THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (continued)
CHAPTER XVI THE TOPIARY LABYRINTH, OR HEDGE MAZE (continued) Latter-day Developments
CHAPTER XVII STONE LABYRINTHS AND ROCK ENGRAVINGS
CHAPTER XVIII THE DANCE OR GAME OF TROY
CHAPTER XIX THE BOWER OF "FAIR ROSAMOND"
CHAPTER XXI LABYRINTH DESIGN AND SOLUTION OF MAZES
CHAPTER XXII THE LABYRINTH IN LITERATURE
CHAPTER XXIII MISCELLANEA AND CONCLUSION
II. FORM, AND MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES
IV. THE LABYRINTH IN ANCIENT ART
VI. HEDGE MAZES, FLORAL LABYRINTHS, ETC.
VIII. STONE LABYRINTHS (For Rock Engravings, see "Miscellaneous")
IX. THE LABYRINTH IN NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
PREFACE
Advantages out of all proportion to the importance of the immediate aim in view are apt to accrue whenever an honest endeavour is made to find an answer to one of those awkward questions which are constantly arising from the natural working of a child's mind. It was an endeavour of this kind which formed the nucleus of the inquiries resulting in the following little essay.
It is true that the effort in this case has not led to complete success in so far as that word denotes the formulation of an exact answer to the original question, which, being one of a number evoked by parental experiments in seaside sand-maze construction, was: "Father, who made mazes first of all?" On the other hand, one hesitates to apply so harsh a term as "failure" when bearing in mind the many delightful excursions, rural as well as literary, which have been involved and the alluring vistas of possible future research that have been opened up from time to time in the course of such excursions.
By no means the least of the adventitious benefits enjoyed by the explorer has been the acquisition of a keener sense of appreciation of the labours of the archaeologist, the anthropologist, and other, more special, types of investigator, any one of whom would naturally be far better qualified to discuss the theme under consideration—at any rate from the standpoint of his particular branch of learning—than the present author can hope to be.
The special thanks of the writer are due to Professor