Atlantis

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"Empire of Atlantis", Donelly's influential map

Atlantis is a fabled island-continent from the distant past, destroyed by a cataclysm and sunken beneath the ocean waves.

Contents 1 General information 2 Location 3 See also 4 Further reading 5 External sites 6 Relevant discussion threads

General information

Plato is largely responsible for the idea of "Atlantis". He discussed its organization, history, downfall and implications in a series of works, thought to be a trilogy, but only the first was completed, the second unfinished. They are the Critias and Timaeus. Plato sets the story up as a dialogue between friends, who talk about Atlantis, as it was told to them by Solon, who himself was taught about it by the Egyptians. In Plato's works, Atlantis is a continent 'beyond the pillars of hercules' that is greater than 'Libya and Asia combined'. It is ruled by 10 kings, composed of concentric rings of land and sea. It is a great naval and trading power, having established an empire over across the sea up to but excluding Egpyt and Athens. In a single day, the island nation of Atlantis is destroyed and becomes submerged.

Prior to Plato, Hellanicus had written a work titled Atlantis, a fragment of which survives. However, this small fragment does not discuss the mythic-legendary island nation.

Much later, in 1882, Ignatius Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. This treatsie covered the evidence for Atlantis having existed, and provided a wealth of current scientific and historical information and evidence supporting its existence. This book re-awoke the western world to the idea of Atlantis.

It was not long afterwards that the idea of Atlantis grew from merely a lost, but primitive, civilization, into one that had technology far more advanced than even modern man.

Helena Blatvasky, prominent seer of the theosophic movement, channeled ancient sages who informed her of the wonderous civilization of Atlantis. Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, related tales about its technology, submergence, and soon-to-come reappearance.

Location

The classical idea about Atlantis is that it was a large continent (Libya and Asia being parts of North Africa and the modern Levant to Plato) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Others have postulated that it was really Antarctica, before being covered with ice sheets.

Some have theorized that it was actually the Americas, or perhaps even specifically Alti Plano in South America.

Most recently, it has been suggested that the island of Cyprus is partially submerged and that it is Atlantis.

A very popular theory is that Atlantis is a civilization that existed in the Aegean, around and on the island of Santorini, destroyed cataclysmically by the explosive eruption of the volcano Thera.

See also

• Ancient Indian Civilization
• Japan's Underwater Pyramids
• Mu
• Pan
• Lemuria

Further reading

• Charles R. Pellegrino, Unearthing Atlantis, Avon (July 1, 2001), ISBN 0380810441, ISBN 978-0380810444
• Shirley Andrews, Atlantis: Insights from a Lost Civilization, Llewellyn Publications; 1st ed edition (September 1, 2002), ISBN 156718023X, ISBN 978-1567180237
• Frank Joseph, The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization, Bear & Company; Reprint edition (March 31, 2004), ISBN 1591430194, ISBN 978-1591430193
• Frank Joseph, The Atlantis Encyclopedia, New Page Books (March 2005), ISBN 1564147959, ISBN 978-1564147950
• Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis. The Antediluvian World, Echo Library (June 20, 2006), ISBN 1847027644, ISBN 978-1847027641

External sites

• Critias
• Timaeus
• Donelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
• The Eruption of Thera
• Case of the Grooved Spheres - The Klerksdorp Spheres
• Case of the Antikythera Mechanism

Relevant discussion threads

• Case for Atlantis being South America
• Atlantis Found!... maybe
• The Atlantis That Was- And Is
• Scientist believes Atlantis found
• Atlantis finally found, and evidence of a different human race
• Could've the Mayan or any other ancient South American civilization have had contact with Atlantis
• Possible Evidence that Mayans and Atlantians interacted
• Mysterious Islands in the Atlantic
• Bible supports Atlantis/Flooded world theory.