On the Trail to Atlantis

Bifurcati writes "Scientists claim to have found the lost city of Atlantis, off the coast of Cyprus. They apparently have used sonar to detect the sunken landmass, and even identify geographical features. They seem confident, but all the same, I wouldn't go buying Atlantian artifacts on Ebay just yet."

Comments

Re:StarGate

[M1000]

Here is the site for the new SG-1 Series, starting this summer !

http://www.stargateatlantis.com/

Re:Predicted

[mcx101]

I wouldn't consider Pravda to "back up" anything.

My wit was clearly wasted on the moderators how modded me Informative instead of Funny. Don't blame me :-(

Re:Okay, so question...

[The Lynxpro]

"And what does being called "the great" have to do with anything? There's tons of fancy gentlemen with fancy titles who are asshats just the same. Plato may have thought Solon was all that, but simply throwing out that he was called "the great" doesn't really do anything to make him other than Just Some Guy, to me."

Excuse me, but I didn't give Solon that title. That is what the Greeks gave to Solon. He was the lawgiver. Take an upper division history course at a university and that's what they call him. So take it out on the historical intelligentsia instead of attacking me on Slashdot. Its part of the "Great Men of History" view of the world. And Solon definitely fit in that mold.

"On what basis should we conclude that Plato was making stuff up when he added to the Atlantis story, but that Solon "the great" and the Egyptian Priests he got the story from were telling the truth or something like it?"

I was merely conceeding that if Plato made anything up about his tale of Atlantis that he inherited second-hand from Solon (via Aristotle) was the part about Athens being involved at all in the fall of Atlantis. From what I know, Athens does not extend to 12,000 BCE which is when Atlantis supposedly fell if you believe the account of the Egyptian priests gave to Solon. Thus I asserted that Plato fabricated that portion (and only that portion) in his story. If Athens defeated the Atlantean army with the help of Zeus's intervention, that would give primacy to the Greek Gods as opposed to whatever gods the Atlanteans supposedly worshipped and the Egyptian gods as well. Would the Egyptian priests assert that the Greek gods were more powerful than their own? No. And that's why that part of the story is suspicious to me.