I need to know some sources where i can find out as much info on Atlantis and how it sunk by mid December.?

Question

its for my reasearch paper for my english calss she says if i dont pass this paper ill fell her calss so please help me Thanks Josh S.

Answer 1

The earliest reference is apparantly in the works of Plato. Any good library will have "The Dialogues of Plato". Or you can go to the following website:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/index.htm

The two dialogues in which Plato discusses Atlantis are
Timaeus and Critias (the links are toward the bottom of the web page, under "Later Dialogues".) You can do a "find" on the word "Atlantis" to find the relevant paragraphs.

By doing this, you'll be reading an original literary source, which should impress your teacher ;) Although if you just plagiarize by copying and pasting, your teacher will most likely recognize Plato's words!

If you do a google search, you can find later commentaries on Atlantis.

Answer 2

Listen. Read Plato's Timaeus and Critias. Especially the Critias. Read as much ABOUT Plato as you can. If it's for English Class you are better off ignoring the rest but you can look up Ignatius Donnelly in the Wikipedia if you want to have fun.

Plato is very very important. I think it's terrible that we show no respect for philosophers like him these days. The two dialogues reportedly take place on the same day and are relatively short. Critias -- the one specifically about Atlantis -- is unfinished. Get a book, either from a bookstore or at the library, and read the whole thing. Even the introduction or afterward from whatever scholar they grabbed for it. The only thing to add is reportedly they found a pillar in Egypt similar to the one Solon through Plato describes, only instead of talking about the Atlanteans the name used is the Egyptian word for Minoans.

That's why it's tough to believe all these stories about airships and crystals. If you want to learn about that stuff Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis is on the Web and you will find all kinds of websites which will point you to other items, but really for a paper just talk about Plato's dialogue.

Answer 3

There are many fictional allusions to Atlantis. If you want to look at some of the more fantastical ideas, 'Triplanetary' by E.E. 'Doc' Smith has it as a consequence of a galaxy spanning conflict and there is a novel by Clive Cussler called 'Atlantis Found' (Cussler's novels normally incorporate historical or mythical events as a prologue and then involve the discovery of artifacts from such events in the main plot-line). Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon cycle suggests that the Atlanteans are the forerunners of Merlin's people.

Answer 4

Well Josh...looking at your spelling and grammar, I'd say a well written paper on Atlantis is the least of your worries...
(you may FAIL her CLASS- spelling-...plus your beginning sentence reads as though Atlantis sunk in Mid-December....re-read the way you wrote it....hey...you asked for help with your homework!!!!!)...
Google the words "Lost City Of Atlantis"...it will pop up ALL KINDS of info for you to look through...

Answer 5

Try this site, go to Line number 7--http://www.crystalinks.com/cayceatlantis.html

Answer 6

It sank by mid December?? What year???