ATLANTIS FROM THE LIPS OF PLATO
LOST, FOUND THEN LOST AGAIN
THIS IS ONE AMAZING CITY
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Atlantis is a timeless hunt. It's treasures in the rough. It offers a lure that attracts even the most stubborn of man. In this story we're going to tag along with one stubborn man by the name of Plato. Yes, I'm sure you've heard nothihgn but good things but in reality he's a prick. He's always been a prick and he'll always been a g
The Atlantis Dialog: Plato's Original Story of the Lost City and Continent
Atlantis was first presented by the Greek logician Plato in two "exchanges" he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His story of an incredible domain that sank underneath the waves — a story that Plato never at any point got done — has started millennia of discussion about whether Atlantis truly existed. Yet, did Plato mean his story as history, or similarly as a story to assist with outlining his way of thinking?
Atlantis, a likely mythical island nation mentioned in Plato’s dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias,” has been an object of fascination among western philosophers and historians for nearly 2,400 years. Plato (c.424–328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C. The ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Plato’s story was to be taken as history or mere metaphor. Since the 19th century there has been renewed interest in linking Plato’s Atlantis to historical locations, most commonly the Greek island of Santorini, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption around 1,600 B.C.
Plato and His Lost City of Atlantis
Plato’s Atlantis
Plato (through the character Critias in his dialogues) describes Atlantis as an island larger than Libya and Asia Minor put together, located in the Atlantic just beyond the Pillars of Hercules—generally assumed to mean the Strait of Gibraltar. Its culture was advanced and it had a constitution suspiciously similar to the one outlined in Plato’s “Republic.” It was protected by the god Poseidon, who made his son Atlas king and namesake of the island and the ocean that surrounded it. As the Atlanteans grew powerful, their ethics declined. Their armies eventually conquered Africa as far as Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Etruscan Italy) before being driven back by an Athenian-led alliance. Later, by way of divine punishment, the island was beset by earthquakes and floods, and sank into a muddy sea.
The Atlantis Dialogue: Plato’s Original Story of the Lost City and Continent
Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two “dialogues” he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His tale of a great empire that sank beneath the waves — a tale that Plato never even finished — has sparked thousands of years of debate over whether Atlantis really existed. But did Plato mean his tale as history, or just as a parable to help illustrate his philosophy?
Did you know? In 1679 the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck published "Atland," a four-volume work in which he attempted to prove that Sweden was the original site of Atlantis and that all human languages were descended from Swedish. Though considered authoritative in his homeland, few outside of Sweden found Rudbeck arguments convincing.
Plato’s Critias says he heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who had heard it from the Athenian statesman Solon (300 years before Plato’s time), who had learned it from an Egyptian priest, who said it had happened 9,000 years before that. Whether or not Plato believed his own story, his intent in telling it seems to have been to boost his ideas of an ideal society, using stories of ancient victory and calamity to call to mind more recent events such as the Trojan War or Athens’ disastrous invasion of Sicily in 413 B.C. The historicity of Plato’s tale was controversial in ancient times—his follower Crantor is said to have believed it, while Strabo (writing a few centuries later) records Aristotle’s ...
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