Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. in Myth and ArchaeologyIn this astonishing synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship, Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Catal Huyuk, demonstrating correspondences to both Plato's tale and the mystery religions of antiquity. |
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Aegean Ain Mallaha Alikosh Anatolia ancient animal appear archaeology architecture Arpachiyah Athena Athenian Atlantic believed bull burials Byblos carbon-14 dates Çatal Hüyük Çatal Shrine Cave Çayönü ceramics Cretan Critias cult culture decorated Dionysos divine double-axe earlier earliest early east eastern Egypt Egyptian eighth millennium Epi-Paleolithic epoch Europe excavator figurines fire Ganj Dareh Gāthās goddess gods Gravettian Greece Greek Halaf Halafian harpoons Iberomaurusian Indo-European Iran Iranian Iraniologists Jericho known Kouretes Late Paleolithic later leopard Levant Magdalenian Magi male map at figure Mediterranean Mellaart Mesopotamia Mithra Mithraic mountains Mureybet myth mythology Natufian Neolithic obsidian origin Orphic Palestine period phase plaster Plato's Poseidon possible PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic prehistory present priest prophet recorded region religion Samarran scholars settlement seventh millennium Sialk sixth millennium B.C. Solon stone statuettes suggested tanged points Tepe Timaeus traditions Upper Paleolithic VI.A wall wares warrior Zaghe Zagreus Zagros village Zarathustra Zeus Zoroastrian