Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis; Euhermos of Messene's Panchaia; Iamboulos' Island of the Sun; Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, With a Supplement on Utopian Prototypes, Development, and Variations.(Review)

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

Diskin Clay and Andrea Purvis. Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis; Euhermos of Messene's Panchaia; lamboulos' Island of the Sun; Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, With a Supplement on Utopian Prototypes, Developments, and Variations. Newburyport, MA: Focus P, 1999. xxi + 193 pp. $12.95.

ISLANDS, PARTICULARLY THE GREEK ISLANDS, hold a special allure for me, so I was very anxious indeed to receive Four Island Utopias. The appeal of this book is immediate for several reasons: its cover photo, a shot from the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion looking out to sea, is ...

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