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Atlantis : lost lands, ancient wisdom / Geoffrey Ashe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashe, Geoffrey.
- Series:
- Art and imagination (New York, N.Y.)
- Art and imagination
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlantis (Legendary place).
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, [1992]
- Summary:
- Atlantis, the island-continent that vanished under the sea, is one of the most haunting themes of legend. Described by Plato more than two thousand years ago, it is, seemingly, a philosophic myth; yet one recounted with a magnificence and a wealth of detail which have convinced many that it must have had some reality. Prehistorians have seen Atlantis as the fountain-head of all civilization; mystics have had revelations about it; archaeologists have claimed to locate it--sometimes in surprising places. But one fact little realized is that Plato's genius indirectly created a different myth from that which he intended -- a unique case history in the workings of the human spirit as it searches for origins and the dawn of wisdom.
- ISBN:
- 0500810397
- OCLC:
- 26710543
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