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Author(s): Rodney Castleden
ISBN(s): 9780415247597, 0415247594
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 13.11 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415247594 

ISBN 13: 9780415247597

Author: Rodney Castleden

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.

Table of contents: 

1 ‘All the island and many other islands also’
The Atlantis legend
Thera: a window onto Atlantis
Eruption after eruption
2 Preludes to discovery
The folklore tradition
Nineteenth-century glimpses of a Minoan past
The backdrop of the Cyclades
Bronze age Knossos
Bronze age Athens
3 Thera: the second rediscovery
The discovery of Ayia Irini
Mavor and Marinatos
The dig at Akrotiri begins
4 The bronze age city of Thera emerges
‘I see with the eyes of my soul… ’
Architecture of a Late Cycladic city
The island: bronze age Thera
5 Atlantean arts and crafts
Pottery
Stone
Metal-working
Textiles
Furniture
6 Theran food and trade
Agriculture and pastoralism
Trade
Ships
7 Writing and wall-painting
Writing
Wall-paintings
Frescoes of Building 6 (the House of the Ladies)
Frescoes of Building 11 (Block Beta)
Frescoes of Building 12 (Bloch Delta)
8 Art, religion and society
A panorama of Atlantis
Growing up
9 The last days of Akrotiri
After the eruption
10 Atlantis destroyed
The Minoan trading empire as Atlantis
The Knossos Labyrinth as the Atlantean Temple of Poseidon
Plato and truth
Plato and Sicily
Plato and Sparta
The source of the Atlantis story
11 Deconstruction of Atlantis
The Old Atlantis
The New Atlantis
Appendix Dating the Thera eruption: a major controvers

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