steve_bnk

An example of a myth predating JC which morphed through various incarnations right up to today.The Atlantis myth is the same human phenomena as the Jesus myth. People want and even need to believe.

How many humans have been chasing Atlantis for how long because of Plato?

How may books, DVDS, documentaries, movies, and articles? How many New Age Atlantians?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis

'...Scholars dispute whether and how much Plato's story or account was inspired by older traditions. In Critias, Plato claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC. In Egypt, Solon met a priest of Sais, who translated the history of ancient Athens and Atlantis, recorded on papyri in Egyptian hieroglyphs, into Greek. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC[1] or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC.

The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors. Alan Cameron states: "It is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously; no one did so in antiquity".[2] The Timaeus remained known in a Latin rendition by Calcidius through the Middle Ages, and the allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up by Humanists in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia. Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books to films. Its name has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations...'

No one would question Plato's account of Atlantis....now would they?

Bullmoose Too

I have read someplace that Atlanits is a fictional city created by Plato that he used as an example for some part of his philosophy.

Eldarion Lathria

How many hundreds of millions of Hindus are there? I know some Religio Romana followers and while that religion is a modern reconstruction, they actually believe in Jupiter and Juno, Apollo, Vesta, Mars and all the rest.

Eldarion Lathria

Bullmoose Too

Do not forget Buddhism.

Minimalist

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/helike.shtml

Plato then about 55 years old was living nearby in Athens. 13 years later, he wrote the dialogues Timaeus and Critias which introduced "Atlantis."

Splarnst

How many people really believe in Atlantis? Any ideas?

rizdek

Didn't it sink when the world was flooded? When the fountains of the deep burst forth, it opened a cavity and allowed a land mass to sink..Atlantis.

Horatio Parker

"maybe...."

(Reuters) - A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

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outhouse

despite all this.

atlantis is still mythology, and has not been found or even any evidence at all that would dictate this specific mythology exist in realty.


many places have been wiped out by tsunamis that used to exist, finding information that is specific is another story.

its possible it can exist, and that there is a historical core. but we are not even close at this point

outhouse

the world was never flooded ever