Posted on 06/06/2004 10:00:25 AM PDT by blam
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Looks like a job for Richard C. Hoagland.
Yeah hehehe... last night Art was in rare form. He's a libertarian dontcha know. It was pretty entertaining.
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First, Plato may have underplayed the size of Atlantis. Secondly, the ancient unit of measurement used by Plato - the stade - may have been 20% larger than traditionally assumed.
If the latter is true, one of the rectangular features on the "island" matches almost exactly the dimensions given by Plato for the temple of Poseidon.
Oh, please. In other words, the sizes don't match up.
Mr Wickboldt added that the Greeks might have confused an Egyptian word referring to a coastline with one meaning "island" during transmission of the Atlantis story.
In other words, this place is not the island described by Plato.
Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC.
In other words, about 9,000 years too late for this to be Plato's Atlantis.
In order for Atlantis bugs to make their theories "work," they always have to assume that Plato got almost everything wrong. Which means that they are not talking about the land described by Plato.
The fabled utopia of Atlantis has captured the imagination of scholars for centuries. The earliest known records of this mythical land appear in Plato's dialogues Critias and Timaios.
Nonsensical raving from the BBC. This is like saying that "the earliest known records of the mythical land of Oceania appear in Orwell's 1984," or that "the earliest known records of the mythical Ebenezer Scrooge appear in Dickens's A Christmas Carol."
Plato made Atlantis up. That's why there is no record of an Atlantis story in Greek mythology. It was a fictional creation.
It would be reasonable to assume that 11,000 years ago there were coastal settlements all over the world.
All these would now be 100 feet or so below sea level (depending on local conditions). There should be hundreds of 'Atlantis' settlements around the Old World.
And older settlements would be at deeper levels.
Hoaxie?! Nah. Linda Moulton-Howe covers that type of stuff.
Nah. There is an Atlantis. It was destroyed with all the havoc at the end of the Ice Age...when the Mediterranean was partially empty and the rising water collapsed the dam at Gilbralter and reflooded the Mediterranean ...and, a couple thousand years later flooded the Black Sea, Noah's Flood?
All you wrote may be true, but it is also possible that a place such as described in this article was the basis for the story Plato wrote.
Yeah, it is just another Utopia. The perfect city with the perfect gov't. Western mythology of the Golden Age.
The problem here is that there is no evidence of an "Atlantis myth" which predated Plato. With no evidence that Plato had ever heard of this Spanish flood, there is no reason to postulate a connection.
Another problem is that any disaster-stricken city which inspired Plato to create Atlantis would still not really be Atlantis, any more than Dr. Joseph Bell was Sherlock Holmes. In fact, it would likely have far less in common with Plato's fictional city than Bell did with Conan Doyle's fictional detective. It would certainly not be the advanced civilization which Plato portrayed.
If Plato's inspiration for Atlantis could be identified, that would be a mildly interesting literary and historical tidbit, but nothing more.
Verrrrrry interesting ping and bttt
Are these the same guys who claimed they saw the Great Wall from sat imagery?!
Plato was not stupid, and he knew what an island was. An island is an island. Kuehne sounds like he's trying to make a name for himself. I've got news for him - Spain is not an island! But nice try.
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