Atlantis destroyed / Rodney Castleden.

Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castleden, Rodney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements and preface; 1 All the island and many other islands also'; 2 Preludes to discovery; 3 Thera: the second rediscovery; 4 The bronze age city of Thera emerges; 5 Atlantean arts and crafts; 6 Theran food and trade; 7 Writing and wall-painting; 8 Art, religion and society; 9 The last days of Akrotiri; 10 Atlantis destroyed; 11 Deconstruction of Atlantis; Appendix Dating the Thera eruption: a major controversy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.