Story Time – Once upon a time
Atlantis -
Don Quijote; Gallerie Futuriste; The Deluge
Plato 428 -347 B. C.
Plato Born in 429, or 428 B. C. By 410 B. C. he became a student of Socrates, and by 386 B. C. Plato established his own school – He taught by using dialogues, quite often conversations between himself and his mentor -
Plato’s Dialogues: Timeaus & Critias Written between 359 B. C. and 347 B. C.
Plato wrote these two dialogues between 359 & his Death in 347 B. C. , they were suppose to be a part of a set of three books dealing with ethics and morals In Timaeus Plato creates a scenario where Socrates is teaching and he refers to the previous days discussion about a utopian society
As the days lesson unfolds Socrates gives the assignment to tell a story of the great city of Athens engaged in a massive war and describes how a utopian society would fight such a war One of the students, Critias proceeds to say - Greek Hoplites Fighting
“Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which though strange, is certainly true…” The words of Critias as created and written by Plato
Critias goes on to say that the story was told to him by his Grandfather, Critiasnotes, who head it from his Grandfather , Dropides who heard it from Socrates Teaching
unnamed Egyptian priests, 590 B. C. , who tell him about a long-gone, utopian Athens. (240 years earlier) - Solon and who’s most heroic deed was to defeat a mighty, yet evil, empire that threatened the rest of the world -
This evil power rose from the island nation, ATLANTIS, which was situated near the Straits of Gibraltar (Pillars of Heracles) Critias’s words as created and written by Plato Aaron Becker Artwork
The ancient Athenians defeated the mighty Atlantis – Shortly afterwards Atlantis and Athens were destroyed by a series of earthquakes, floods, and other cataclysms Afterwards Critias cedes the floor to Timaeus who goes on to discuss the origins of the universe -
Ancient Athens also noted in Plato’s Critias. Dialogue YASOU
In Critias Athens is described as one of Socrates’ perfect societies. Artisans were set aside from the military, they possessed no private property, gold or silver - Utopia
Poseidon (Greek god) & Kleito (a mortal) Had 5 sets of male twins (c)2001 Atlantis & Ancient Civilizations Greek Mythology
The offspring of Poseidon and Kleito developed an Atlantean culture, with a 15 -mile-wide city of concentric rings of alternating land water. One outer wall of stone that contained the City of Atlantis, larger than the current City of London. The first inner wall plastered with brass, the next wall was plastered with tin, and the inner wall of orichalcum* “which sparkled like fire. ” Theories About Atlantis *A mixture of copper, silver and gold
Atlantis One interpretation of the outer wall of Atlantis - Doug Fisher
””And after crossing the three outer harbors, one found a wall which originated at the sea a distance of fifty stades from the largest circle and harbor; It ran round everywhere with its ends converging at the seaward mouth of the channel. The whole of this wall had numerous houses built on to it, set close together; while the seaway and the largest harbor were filled with ships and merchants coming from all quarters, which by reason of their multitude caused clamor and tumult of every description and an unceasing din night and day. " Doug Fisher
A Navy of 1, 200 Ships - 110, 000 Chariots - Carthaginian War Elephants, Battle of Zama 202 B. C.
After awhile the divine elements of Atlantis were diluted, and the human portion became dominant , oh and greedy and depraved - (c)2001 Atlantis & Ancient Civilizations
Zeus decided to teach the immoral inhabitants of Atlantis a lesson by destroying the place…Plato died before Zeus relayed his plan to punish the Atlanteans…and the Critias dialogue ends. Alan Altford & Atlantis: The Antediluvian World; Robert Stacy-Judd, 1936
Feder* (p 181) notes that the Atlantis myth was not even about Atlantis, but rather it was plot device in Plato’s story to illustrate his dialogue on morals and ethics. * Atlantis, The Atlantis Quarterly, and Atlantis Rising
According to Plato’s story in Timeaus, an advanced Athenian state defeated Atlantis about 11 kya, What does archaeology say about Greece at this time? Franchthi Cave, Greece Northern Illinois Department of Anthropology
The Age of Exploration - 15 th-16 th centuries The Portuguese Landing in West Africa, c. 1444
Lopez de Gomara, 1552, concludes that the indigenous People of the Americas were the descendants of Atlantis - atl = water Penn Library Exhibition
This concept had staying power, some claimed the New World was Atlantis. Even some 17 th Century Maps had Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - (c)2001 Atlantis & Ancient Civilizations
Enter the Myth-Perpetuators… Troano Codex (now the Madrid Codex) “translated” by Abbe Charles-Entienne Brasseur 1846 That the Codex had stories of Atlantis - Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World Ignatius Donnelly 1882 Published a book claiming that Atlantis was the seed civilization for all other civilizations of the past - From Revolution to Reconstruction 1994 -2004
They are not that similar…in form, construction, chronology… Donley was a diffusionist, that all concepts come from one culture and spread from there - Giza 2600 -2500 B. C. Tikal A. D. 600
Lewis Spence Scottish Mythologist 1926 Cro-Magnon 30 kya That Cro-Magnon man, and their art, were in fact Atlanteans Gallery of Bison at Spain’s Altamira Cave 20+ kya (National Geographic July 2000: 91); & Human Evolution at the Smithsonian Institution.
Heinrich Himmler, 1940 s Heinrich claimed that Germanic people (Aryans) were descendants of an Atlantean master race. He sent scientists all over the world in an attempt to find common descent from the Atlanteans -
The legend of Atlantis did not die with Plato.
Robert Sarmast Claims he has found Atlantis off Cyprus -
CYPRUS ATLANTIS EXPEDITION 2004 SONAR Data from 1. 5 km down on the sea bed 80 km off the S. E. coast of Cyprus.
CYPRUS ATLANTIS EXPEDITION 2004 The Cyprus Government has responded with, “More proof is necessary. ”
Is Sarmast’s yet another one of several “ridiculous” claims? Natural Columns of Volcanic Rock NOT Roads e. g. , Bimini, Bahamas Submerged roads, columns Post-A. D. 1800 Concrete NOT Building Columns Digilander Ghost Pages
Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos - It matches the time frame – Oh, it also proves the Biblical Floods, and cures athletes foot -
British historian and cartographer Jim Allen believes that the legendary lost city of Atlantis was located in Quillacas, Bolivia -
Now a group of scientists, lead by Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, believe Atlantis is submerged north of Cadiz Spain -
That by using digital technology imaging they found a feature buried under a swamp that matches Plato’s descriptions - Artists Rendition of what the feature would look like under the swamp -
Then again, it could be right here -