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ATLANTIS
Where Was Atlantis?
Atlantis: ATLANTIS,
in the tradition of antiquity, a large island in the Western Ocean (the
ocean to the west of the known world), near the Pillars of Hercules. The
first recorded accounts of Atlantis, which is said to have been engulfed
by the ocean as the result of an earthquake, appear in Timaeus
and Critias, two dialogues by Plato. According to the account
in Timaeus, the island was described to the Athenian statesman Solon by
an Egyptian priest, who maintained that Atlantis was larger than
Asia Minor and Libya combined.
The priest further revealed that a flourishing
civilization centered on Atlantis reputedly about the 10th millennium
BC, and that the nation had conquered all the Mediterranean peoples except
the Athenians. In Critias, Plato records the history of Atlantis and depicts the nation as a utopian commonwealth.
Although Plato's descriptive
material and history are probably fictional, the possibility exists that
he had access to records no longer extant.
The tradition that a lost island
such as Atlantis once flourished has always fascinated the popular
imagination, and the tradition continues to survive. In the 20th century
some oceanographers have advanced the theory that Atlantis was
once a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. The island, called Thira, was buried
by a volcanic eruption about 1500 BC. Other theories have been based on
archaeological discoveries. Scholars have variously identified the island
with Crete, the Canary Islands, the Scandinavian Peninsula, and America.
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Was
there an ATLANTIS?
The story of the lost continent of
Atlantis is told in two of Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus
and Critias. Critias claims that the story of Atlantis was told
by Solon by Egyptian priests.
The legend describes how there had been
a great continent in the Atlantic, "beyond the Pillars of Hercules"
containing a remarkable civilisation which had flourished some 9,000 years
earlier.
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