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The Atlantis Story (Record no. 573965)
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| fixed length control field | 01810nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250626b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780859898058 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | hbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 001.94 |
| Item number | VID |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Vidal Pierre -Naquet |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Atlantis Story |
| Sub Title | : a short history of plato's myth |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Pierre Vidal-Naquet |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Uk |
| Name of publisher | university of exeter press, |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxii; 192 p. |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Why have the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis been unsuccessful? For the good reason that Plato made the island up Plato's Atlantis - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it - is just a myth." "Rather than focus on man's futile attempts to discover the island, Pierre Vidal-Naquet's brief history of Atlantis examines the diverse uses made of the myth through the ages in different contexts of the myth through the ages in different contexts and periods. Written in a clear and interesting style, the depth of the author's knowledge is apparent in his deft use of primary references and the originality of his ideas is enhanced by carefully chosen illustrative material." "He shows how Plato's myth was reinterpreted in the medieval period and after, through conflation with the search for the lost tribes of Israel; how it became involved with the debate about whether Europe should look back to its origins in the Classical or Biblical worlds; how the myth was reinterpreted with a more geographical emphasis following Columbus discovery of America; and how it was used in the Enlightenment to add colour to nationalist attempts to claim antiquity by finding unrecognised origins."--Jacket<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Atlantis (legendary place) critias (plato) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Reference |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 3RD FLOOR, A WING | 23.12.2010 | 001.94 VID | 465332 | 26.06.2025 | Reference |