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The Atlantis Story. A Short History of Plato's Myth.
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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Description for The Atlantis Story. A Short History of Plato's Myth.
Hardcover. Presents the history of development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it. Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis, the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
This is the history of the development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it...Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis - all of which are futile for the very good reason that Plato made the island up - the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. He shows how Plato's myth was reinterpreted in the medieval period and after through conflation with the search for the lost tribes of Israel; how it became ... Read more
This is the history of the development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it...Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis - all of which are futile for the very good reason that Plato made the island up - the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. He shows how Plato's myth was reinterpreted in the medieval period and after through conflation with the search for the lost tribes of Israel; how it became ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898058
SKU
V9780859898058
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About Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Vidal-Naquet was Director of Graduate Studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris until his death in 2006. He was one of the most famous French Classical scholars in the post-war period. His earlier books in the field of Classics translated into English include: Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, The Black Hunter: Thought and ... Read more
Reviews for The Atlantis Story. A Short History of Plato's Myth.
Janet Lloyd and Exeter University Press have performed an invaluable service to students of Plato’s Atlantis myth by making Pierre Vidal-Naquet’s short but wide-ranging study of its reception available in English. … admirably concise and an essential addition to scholarship on the myth.
John Hilton, Scholia Reviews, ns 17, 11
It certainly deserves the wider market that the ... Read more
John Hilton, Scholia Reviews, ns 17, 11
It certainly deserves the wider market that the ... Read more