{"product_id":"red-thread-on-mazes-and-labyrinths-9781910702390","title":"Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur  finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadnes ball of red thread  is one of the most intriguing  suggestive and persistent of all myths  and the labyrinth  the beautiful  confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man  half-bull monster  is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins  author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another Sky  tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer  Catullus  Virgil and Ovid  and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans  the mysterious turf labyrinths of northern Europe  the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way  she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle  and of artists from Titian and Velzquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost  what it is to find ones way  and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. Red Thread is  above all  a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the authors imagination  one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey  full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924406198325,"sku":"ByrdShop_1910702390","price":240.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781910702390.jpg?v=1787669605","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/red-thread-on-mazes-and-labyrinths-9781910702390","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}