The Atlantis Story

French classics scholar Vidal-Naquet turns his attention to the many uses made of the Atlantis myth through the ages in different contexts and periods. He shows how the myth was reinterpreted overtime and appropriated by various interested parties. An excellent copy. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. Cloth boards are tight and clean. DJ is unclipped and in first… Read more about this item

Hardback. New. 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.

Exeter,, 2007. First Edition In English. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xxii, 192. Original publisher's teal cloth, lettered silver on spine. ISBN: 0859898059

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.