Culture watch: Dream republics.

This article presents information about various books. Some of the books are, "Imaging Atlantis," by Richard Ellis, "Unearthing Atlantis," by Charles Pellegrino, and "Mating," by Norman Rush. Richard Ellis, a marine artist and fluent scribbler of books on legends of the sea, prefers to believe that blue monkeys were around in the Aegean as late as 430 BC and to blame for the Plague of Athens, which knocked off Pericles, since their close relative, the vervet, or green monkey, is responsible for the spread of the Ebola virus in Zaire and the Sudan.