What d'you believe? D'you believe Plato was telling the truth about this antediluvian world, or was the story a way to rally the citizens of Greece to learn from their mistakes and not repeat them?
People believe they have found ruins of Atlantis throughout the world. Plato's description can be found mostly everywhere, from the island of Crete to the icelands of Antartica. Large stones have even been found off the coast of Bimini, that some claim are the outer walls or roads of Atlantis.
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The actual location is debatable. I think that there was once an Utopian society in ancient world. Plato must have known something about such a place. I think those writtings of Plato giving full details of Atlantis are missing.
Thera does seem to be the greatest possible location for Atlantis. It does harbour many of the traits Plato described: hot and cold springs, unity, man in tune with nature seen by the frascos, temples...etc.
Atlantis is a legendary island in the Atlantic, west of Gibraltar, that sunk beneath the sea during a violent eruption of earthquakes and floods some 9,000 years before Plato wrote about it in his Timaeus and Critias. In a discussion of utopian societies, Plato claims that Egyptian priests told Solon about Atlantis. Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave. The purpose of Atlantis is to express a moral message in a discussion of ideal societies, a favorite theme of his. The fact that nobody in Greece for 9,000 years had mentioned a battle between Athens and Atlantis should serve as a clue that Plato was not talking about a real place or battle. Nevertheless, Plato is often cited as the primary source for the reality of a place on earth called Atlantis.
(From A Skeptics Dictionary http://skepdic.com/atlantis.html)
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Yerssot> There is no proof. Show me some, THEN we can talk
__________________ "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
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"That includes ruining Halloween because someone swallowed a Bible."
"I just thought you were a guy."
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ok people! atlantis is up my ass! you can go visit me and stick your hand up my ass, when you put it in, go to the left, not the right, people always do that. You'll find aqua man from justice league in there too
Sorry, moonwalker... before we can visit Atlantis up your ass, you must take your finger out of it first. It's not nice to point.
The Omega > People also believed Troy was a fable before Heinrich Schlieman found TROY in 1870. He excavated 9 cities, one with large e'nuff walls told in Homer's story The Illaid.
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