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L'Atlantide: Petite Histoire D'Un Mythe Platonicien
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This book, which Pierre Vidal-Naquet tells us he had been carrying around inside of him for half a century, begins around 355 B.C., when Plato was writing Timaeus and Critias. Plato undoubtedly borrowed elements from the culture of his time, but the myth of the « lost continent, » which could not have existed without an equally imaginary Athens, is his own work. Atlantis cannot be sought in the dark recesses of time any more than in the depths of the sea : it does not exist. In as much as it is a myth that has been elaborated upon and retold in countless forms, a French version of its epic history is long overdue. As an historian and director of Graduate Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and co-director of the « Histoire » collection, Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of numerous essays on Ancient Greece published notably by Les Belles Lettres.
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