Volume 13, Number 10 · December 4, 1969
Back to Atlantis
By M.I. Finley
Atlantis The Truth Behind the Legend
by A.G. Galanopoulos, by Edward Bacon
Bobbs-Merrill, 216 pp., $12.50
Lost Atlantis New Light on an Old Legend
by J.V. Luce
McGraw-Hill, 224 pp., $9.95
In The New York Review of Books for May 22, 1969, I took the opportunity, in reviewing Voyage to Atlantis by James W. Mavor Jr., to discuss at length (and dismiss) current efforts to historicize Plato's myth of Atlantis. That old game has been revived with the recent discovery that the Aegean island of Santorini (ancient Thera) is a mere fragment which survived one of the greatest volcanic eruptions of all time, in about 1500 B.C. The explosion, the Atlanticists argue, was 'remembered' in a mixed-up way, until Plato brought it back to consciousness in his myth.
Review, 1105 words
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