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To: grania
"There are theories around that the island that was destroyed by the volcano was the basis for Atlantis legends, and its eruption caused the migration of Mediterranean seafaring people all over the world."

My thoughts are that Atlantis was thousands of years before this 1628BC event....and maybe on another continent?

33 posted on 11/11/2002 3:33:45 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
My thoughts are that Atlantis was thousands of years before this 1628BC event....and maybe on another continent?

Unbelievable...I found my son's HS term paper from March 1985. In it, he cited John Victor Luce LOST ATLANTIS: NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD LEGEND (McGrawHill, 1969).

He wrote "the only possible volcano which could have destroyed Crete was Santorini. When this occurred, argonauts from Crete were confronted with huge tsunamis and a "large bronze giant who hurled stones". The surviving Argonauts then went north from Crete, and, according to Appolonius, the Cretans "helplessly entrusted their safe return to the sea, to carry them where it would".

This story of the Cretan argonauts is remarkably similar to that of the Atlantean argonauts...(All quotes cite Luce).

This is just one of many theories. If you'd like, I'll go through the whole paper tomorrow and get more sources and theories he developed.

35 posted on 11/11/2002 4:34:09 PM PST by grania
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