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Author Castleden, Rodney

Title Atlantis destroyed / Rodney Castleden
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
Notes English
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Subject Atlantis (Legendary place)
Minoans.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Unexplained Phenomena.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Ancient Mysteries & Controversial Knowledge.
Atlantis (Legendary place)
Minoans
Atlantis (mythologie)
Atlantide.
Kreta.
Thira.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97045656
ISBN 0203159527
9780203159521
9780203024867
0203024869
9780415165396
0415165393
1322093601
9781322093604
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9781280506529