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Four Island Utopias
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Focus Item #: 00005
Author(s): Diskin Clay and Andrea Purvis
ISBN: 978-1-58510-000-2
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Description
Includes Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of
Messene's Sacred Inscription, Iamboulos's Island of the Sun, and
Bacon's New Atlantis with a supplement of Utopian Prototypes,
Developments and Variations.
Features
Includes translations in English of the three Greek texts, plus Sir
Francis Bacon's classic utopian work, and introduction, and essay.
About
the Authors
Diskin
Clay is R. J. R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies
at Duke University. His previous books includes Paradosis and Survival:
Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy (Michigan, 1990).
Andrea
L. Purvis received her Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke
University in 1998. She currently works as Translator and Assistant Editor of
the forthcoming Landmark Herodotus (Robert B. Strassler, ed.), and
teaches in Duke University's Department of Classical Studies.
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Bernice W. Kliman & Laury Magnus
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Edited by Kenneth Rothwell
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Edited by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick
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Edited by Gretchen Schulz
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