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Pierre Vidal-Naquet: The Atlantis Story [2007] hardback BOARD At once a careful reckoningThis 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