Can you briefly tell me what you know about Atlantis?

Answer 1

On behalf of unknown heroes
And the priest said to Solon
Solon, you Greeks are but children
In those days the Atlantic was navigable
And there was an island in front of the Pillars of Hercules
That sank in a single day and night of rain

Answer 2

Neither, nor anybody else, could possibly "know" any more about Atlantis than was originally written by Plato. You can read a good translation for yourself at the web site below.

A popular and plausible interpretation of Plato's fourth-hand story is that Atlantis was Crete in 1500 BC. 70 miles to the north is the volcanic island of Thera or Santorini, where there is known to have been an enormous eruption around this time. A huge tidal wave destroyed the ships and ports on the north coast, and an ash blanket smothered the farmland and crops.

Solon brought back the story of this event from a trip to Egypt in about 600 BC, but he got all the numbers in it wrong by a factor of 10 through his misunderstanding of the Egyptian numerals. For example, he says that the Egyptian said that it happened 9000 years earlier, but taking 900 years instead puts us right at 1500 BC, and Crete fits it quite nicely after all.

When reading the original, you should allow not only for Solon's incorrect translation of the numbers, but also for (1) a bit of historical distortion in 900 years of Egyptian records and memories, (2) a bit of dramatic exaggeration by the Egyptian, (3) a bit of adjustment by Solon to fit his incorrect numbers, including re-locating it out in the Atlantic, and (4) some dramatic or literary adjustment by Plato in the final telling.

Answer 3

Plato was the first to write about Atlantis, based upon accounts told by Solon who heard the legend from Egyptian priests. Apparently, the Egyptians claimed they inherited there secrets of pyramid building and alchemy from the long forgotten Atlantis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/atlantis_01.shtml

Most experts today think Plato's Atlantis is based on the legend of a Bronze Age Greek civilization on the island of Santorini over 1000 years before his time. In 1650 BC, the island erupted into a volcano, and the entire city was destroyed. Today you can see submerged ruins of Thera within the crater walls of the volcano.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/santorini.html

Here's another scenario: 10,000 years ago, at the height of the Ice Age, the world's sea levels were 300 feet lower than today. If there really was a lost "golden age" on Earth, its ruins could be found on the now sunken shorelines. Here are some claims about Atlantis and possible locations throughout history:

Taiwan: http://www.grahamhancock.com/underworld/
Cuba: http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i021017/i021017.html
Bahamas: http://www.bahamas.com/bahamas/island/templrgstandard.aspx?sectionid=27530&level=2
Cyprus: http://www.discoveryofatlantis.com/

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Answer 4

Depends who you talk with: Either Plato or Socrates wrote that Atlantis was a real place, with advanced technology. To support this, there has been various items discovered from the ocean floor that supports these writings.

However, most people think Atlantis is mythical- but theres just enough evidence to support that it may have existed.

Answer 5

The Santorini theory looked fairly good as far as I recall, I remember reading that if you divided most of the numbers mentioned by 10 you get something reasonable.

Another possibility was the collapse of the Cretan civilisation hundreds of years before which seems to have been mostly due to a natural disaster, possibly the Santorini eruption. They were well ahead of the Greeks at the time and were well known to the old Egyptians.

Answer 6

Timaeus and Critias, two of Plato's dialogues, are the only existing written records which specifically refer to Atlantis. The dialogues are conversations between Socrates, Hermocrates, Timeaus, and Critias. Apparently in response to a prior talk by Socrates about ideal societies, Timeaus and Critias agree to entertain Socrates with a tale that is "not a fiction but a true story."

The story is about the conflict between the ancient Athenians and the Atlantians 9000 years before Plato's time. Knowledge of the distant past apparently forgotten to the Athenians of Plato's day, the story of Atlantis was conveyed to Solon by Egyptian priests. Solon passed the tale to Dropides, the great-grandfather of Critias. Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.

Answer 7

Stargate SG1 > Atlantis

Answer 8

It cannot be done briefly. I would refer you to the seer Edgar Cayce who wrote extensively about Atlantis as he envisioned the place in his psychic readings and when he was deep in meditation.
Chow!!

Answer 9

what happened to the questions about the German panzer divisions and the war on the eastern front???????????????

Answer 10

It's a big myth.