The firstborn, Atlas, had the continent and the surrounding ocean named for him. Poseidon divided the land into ten sections, each to be ruled by a son, or his heirs. The capital city of Atlantis was a marvel of architecture and engineering. The city was composed of a series of concentric walls and canals. At the very center was a hill, and on top of the hill a temple to Poseidon. Inside was a gold statue of the God of the Sea showing him driving six winged horses.
About years before the time of Plato, after the people of Atlantis became corrupt and greedy, the gods decided to destroy them.
A violent earthquake shook the land, giant waves rolled over the shores, and the island sank into the sea, never to be seen again. So, is the story of Atlantis just a fable used by Plato to make a point? Or is there some reason to think he was referring to a real place? Well, at numerous points in the dialogues, Plato's characters refer to the story of Atlantis as "genuine history" and it being within "the realm of fact. On the other hand according to the writings of the historian Strabo, Plato's student Aristotle remarked that Atlantis was simply created by Plato to illustrate a point.
Unfortunately, Aristotle's writings on this subject, which might have cleared the mystery up, have been lost eons ago.
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Location, Location, Location If we make the assumption that Atlantis was a real place, it seems logical that it could be found west of the Straight of Gibraltar near the Azores Islands. Donnelly, an American politician, had come to the belief that Plato's story represented actual historical fact. He located Atlantis in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, suggesting the Azores Islands represented what remained of the highest mountain peaks. Donnelly said he had studied zoology and geology and had come to the conclusion that civilization itself had begun with the Atlantians and had spread out throughout the world as the Atlantians established colonies in places like ancient Egypt and Peru.
Donnelly's book became a world-wide best seller, but researchers could not take Donnelly's theories seriously as he offered no proof for his ideas. As time went on it became obvious that Donnelly's theories were faulty.
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Modern scientific surveys of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean shows it is covered with a blanket of sediment that must have taken millions of years to accumulate. There is no sign of a sunken island continent. Are Pyramids a Clue? Lewis Spence, a Scottish writer, published several books on Atlantis in the early 20th century. He was fascinated by the pyramids constructed by ancient races in different parts of the globe. Spence wondered if the creation of pyramids in diverse areas such as South America and Egypt indicated that these places had all been colonies of the Atlantis and if the Atlantians were the original pyramid makers.
While the idea is interesting, most historians today believe the trend toward building pyramids occurred independently in different locations. Are there any other candidates for the location of Atlantis? People have made cases for places as diverse as Switzerland, in the middle of Europe, and New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean.
The explorer, Percy Fawcett , thought that it might be located in Brazil. Geological studies have shown that at one time this marsh was a huge bay connected to the Atlantic Ocean.
The team, using radar technology, digital mapping and satellite imagery believes that they can see signs of a ringed city that once occupied the bay with canals similar to those described by Plato. There is evidence that a number of tsunamis have swept this area over the centuries and Freund thinks that it is one of these destroyed the city.
After the disaster survivors may have moved inland and created a number of what Freund thinks are memorial sites to Atlantis. Other scientists that have explored the area do not agree with Freund's conclusion, though they admit that a city by the name of Tartessos occupied the area around the 4th century B. Freund believes that Tartessos and Atlantis may just be different names for the same city. As far back as the 's historian Adolf Schulten had suggested that Plato had used the real city of Tartessos as the source for his Atlantis legend.
The strongest evidence for a real Atlantis, however, is not in Spain, but closer to Plato's home in Greece. This idea started with K. Frost , a professor of history at the Queen's University in Belfast.
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Later, Spyridon Marinatos , an archaeologist, and A. Galanopoulos , a seismologist, added evidence to Frost's ideas. He also thought that the catastrophic end of the island had come not years before Plato's time, but only If this was true, the land of Atlantis might already be a well-known place even in Plato's time: Crete is now a part of modern Greece and lies just south of Athens across part of the Mediterranean Sea.
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