2006-09-10 05:22:21 · 7 answers · asked by johnny_reddevil_sayigh 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Atlantis:
a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, lying west of the Straits of Gibraltar. The principal sources for the legend are two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In the former, Plato describes how Egyptian priests, in conversation with the Athenian lawgiver Solon, described Atlantis as an island larger than Asia Minor and Libya combined, and situated just beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar). About 9,000 years before the birth of Solon, the priests said, Atlantis was a rich island whose powerful princes conquered many of the lands of the Mediterranean until they were finally defeated by the Athenians and the latter's allies. The Atlantians eventually became wicked and impious, and their island was swallowed up by the sea as a result of earthquakes. In the Critias, Plato supplied a history of the ideal commonwealth of the Atlantians.
Atlantis is probably a mere legend, but medieval European writers who received the tale from Arab geographers believed it to be true, and later writers tried to identify it with an actual country. After the Renaissance, for example, attempts were made to identify Atlantis with America, Scandinavia, and the Canary Islands. The story of Atlantis, if Plato did not invent it, may in fact reflect ancient Egyptian records of a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera about 1500 BC. This eruption, one of the most stupendous of historical times, was accompanied by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis that shattered civilization on Crete, thereby perhaps giving rise to the legend of Atlantis.
2006-09-11 02:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Britannica Knowledge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was built by the Ancients and is on a planet miles away. It can be hidden underwater to protect it from the Wraith. Can only be reached if the Stargate at SGC is given a substantial power boost!
2006-09-11 03:32:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had something on Atlantis, but I lost it.
2006-09-10 05:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Serenity is wrong. You should be able to use the Stargate at standard power.
2006-09-11 14:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by matt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is underwater and has mermaids and crap like that
2006-09-10 05:56:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's gone
2006-09-10 08:07:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only myth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-10 05:27:55 · answer #7 · answered by t-man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋