Rodney Castleden

Atlantis Destroyed

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415165396
• ISBN-10: 0415165393
• Artikelnr.: 21900938

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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