Atlantis Destroyed

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements and preface
1 ‘All the island and many other islands also’
	The Atlantis legend
	Thera: a window onto Atlantis
	Eruption after eruption
2 Preludes to discovery
	The folklore tradition
	Nineteenth-century glimpses of a Minoan past
	The backdrop of the Cyclades
	Bronze age Knossos
	Bronze age Athens
3 Thera: the second rediscovery
	The discovery of Ayia Irini
	Mavor and Marinatos
	The dig at Akrotiri begins
4 The bronze age city of Thera emerges
	‘I see with the eyes of my soul. . . ’
	Architecture of a Late Cycladic city
	The island: bronze age Thera
5 Atlantean arts and crafts
	Pottery
	Stone
	Metal-working
	Textiles
	Furniture
6 Theran food and trade
	Agriculture and pastoralism
	Trade
	Ships
7 Writing and wall-painting
	Writing
	Wall-paintings
	Frescoes of Building 6 (the House of the Ladies)
	Frescoes of Building 11 (Block Beta)
	Frescoes of Building 12 (Block Delta)
8 Art, religion and society
	A panorama of Atlantis
	Growing up
9 The last days of Akrotiri
	After the eruption
10 Atlantis destroyed
	The Minoan trading empire as Atlantis
	The Knossos Labyrinth as the Atlantean Temple of Poseidon
	Plato and truth
	Plato and Sicily
	Plato and Sparta
	The source of the Atlantis story
11 Deconstruction of Atlantis
	The Old Atlantis
	The New Atlantis
Appendix Dating the Thera eruption: a major controversy
Notes
Bibliography
Index