Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The Atlantis Story [2007] hardback BOARD Ava finds herself headed cross-country

Ava finds herself headed cross-country to live with the only relative she has left

Conspiracies are more popular than ever after the release of the JFK files

At once a careful reckoning and an elegy

fashion's quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato's Republic

Two years later

Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The Atlantis Story [2007] hardback BOARD Ava finds herself headed cross-countryThis is the history of the development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis all of which are futile for the very good reason that Plato made the island up the author re examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. He shows how Plato's myth was