Atlantis Destroyed

Castleden, Rodney

ISBN 10: 0415165393 / ISBN 13: 9780415165396

Published by Routledge, 1998

About this Item

Hardback in Very Good condition with Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. Light wear. Published by Routledge - 1998. 240 pages. 16cm x 24cm.

Seller Inventory # 100619D

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Atlantis Destroyed
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415165393
• ISBN 13: 9780415165396
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Myth Legend and Folklore

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Synopsis

Plato's legend of Atlantis has become notorious among scholars as the absurdest lie in literature. Atlantis Destroyed explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically true.
Rodney Castleden first considers the location of Atlantis re-examining two suggestions put forward in the early twentieth century; Minoan Crete and Minoan Thera. He outlines the latest research findings on Knossos and Bronze Age Thera, discussing the material culture, trade empire and agricultural system, writing and wall paintings, art, religion and society of the Minoan civilization. Castleden demonstrates the many parallels between Plato's narrative and the Minoan Civilization in the Aegean.
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 xplains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account.

About the Author

Rodney Castleden has been actively involved in research on landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty-five years. He is the author of The Making of Stonehenge, The Knossos Labyrinth and Minoans.