Atlantis destroyed /
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.
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.