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BBC RADIO 4 - In Our Time - Plato's Atlantis
2022-09-22
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, first told by Plato and taken literally by Renaissance Europeans as they began to explore the oceans.
duration 54 minutes
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
CONTRIBUTORS
Angie Hobbs at the University of Sheffield
Edith Hall at Durham University
Christopher Gill at the University of Exeter
READING LIST
Sarah Broadie, Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus (Cambridge University Press, 2012), especially ch. 5. ‘The Timaeus-Critias Complex’
Phyllis Young Forsyth, Atlantis: The Making of Myth (Toronto University Press, 1980)
Christopher Gill, ‘The Genre of the Atlantis Story’ (Classical Philology 72, 1977)
Christopher Gill, Plato’s Atlantis Story: Text, Translation and Commentary (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
T. K. Johansen, Plato’s Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias (Cambridge University Press, 2004), especially chs. 1-2, ‘What is the Timaeus-Critias about?’ and ‘The Status of the Atlantis Story’
J. V. Luce, The End of Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend (Thames and Hudson, 1969)
K. A. Morgan, ‘Designer History: Plato’s Atlantis Story and Fourth-Century Ideology’ (Journal of Hellenic Studies 118, 1998)
Plato (trans. Desmond Lee), Timaeus and Critias (Penguin, 2008)
Edwin S. Ramage, (ed.), Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? (Indiana University Press, 1978)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato’s Myth (University of Exeter Press, 2007)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World (John Hopkins University Press, 1986)
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