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Atlantis Destroyed Hardcover - 1998

by Rodney Castleden

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Legendary Atlantis long has hovered between fable and folk tale, taken as fact by some, allegory by others. Author Rodney Castleden incorporates the entire body of scholarship extant on Bronze Age cultures to demonstrate how what he calls the "myth" of Atlantis evolved. 30 photos. 50 line figures. 19 maps.

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U S. A.: Routledge. As New/As New. 1998. Hardcover. 0415165393 225pp including bibliography and index Examines the legend of the famed lost continent of Atlantis, whose description is found in Plato's Timaeus and Critias. This explores the possibility that the account given by Plato is historically true. Illustrations, photographs and maps .
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  • Title Atlantis Destroyed
  • Author Rodney Castleden
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, U S. A.
  • Date 1998
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 92268
  • ISBN 9780415165396 / 0415165393
  • Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.39 x 0.79 in (24.08 x 16.23 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Atlantis (Legendary place), Minoans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97045656
  • Dewey Decimal Code 001.94

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From the publisher

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.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/1998, Page 627
  • Library Journal, 06/01/1998, Page 125

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.