A wonderful novel for children, and not only. Myth, history, and archaeology, feelings and ideals are fascinatingly intertwined with the plot and the vivid characters of the work. Nikos Kazantzakis, who loved children so much, offers them a book written with inspiration, care, and great passion, a book that absorbs anyone who opens it.

"Kazantzakis, the greatest of Greek writers, narrates here a very ancient myth, that of the Minotaur. The Cretan civilization develops around the palace of Knossos. Outside, there are festivals, bullfights, snake dances, and inside the mysterious Labyrinth lives the fearsome Minotaur. Athens is nothing but a small city, oppressed by Cretan power and exhausted by the tribute it must pay to the monster. Will Prince Theseus, the hero whose love is claimed by King Minos's daughters, Ariadne and Phaedra, manage to defeat the Minotaur, win the heart of his beloved, and free Athens? Will the blacksmith reveal the secret of the new weapon? Will Daedalus make people fly? Will Icarus and his friends manage to escape from the palace?
"Under the guise of a passionate adventure novel, in which the most exciting incidents occur, Kazantzakis expresses his entire perception of History: an excessively aged, excessively wealthy world, and precisely for this reason, decaying, collapses; another, younger, more fervent, nobler world takes its place. The values of hope, bravery, freedom, and democracy, which are so dear to him, emerge intertwined with the plot.
"A beautiful book, where Kazantzakis's audience will find what they like in his work: the tangible presence of things and people to whom the author lends his immense and imperative love for life."

(From the Spanish edition Nikos Kazantzakis, "En el palacio de Cnosos", Editorial Planeta, S.A., Coleccion Narrativa, Barcelona 1987)