The Bull of Minos by Leonard Cottrell

This is a fine journalistic effort to marry myth and reality and bring both within the scope of the common reader -eg, me.
Cottrell travels to Greece and traces the work of amateur archaeologists in the 19th century and early 20th century to show how the myths like that of the famous minotaur have their basis in fact. So much that I was brought up to believe fairy stories happened. The Bull of Minos is a sweet, slow moving threnody. Enlightening