Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; 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; Appendix Dating the Thera eruption: a major controversy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index
