Imagining Atlantis

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Название: Imagining Atlantis

Автор : Richard Ellis

Издатель : Vintage

Год : 1998

Формат: pdf

Страниц: 520

Язык: English

Размер : 8,77 mb

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Атлантида никогда не существовала ?

Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination.

For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from

Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to speculate on the island's origins, nature, and location, and sometimes even to search for its physical remains.

It has endured as a part of the mythology of many different cultures, yet there is no indisputable evidence,

let alone proof, that Atlantis ever existed. What, then, accounts for its seemingly inexhaustible appeal?