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To: Beowulf9

Plato doesn’t discuss Thera at all in his two dialogues mentioning Atlantis, and most definitely puts it in the Atlantic (hence the name). Although the origin of the tale is given as Egypt, there’s literally nothing about Atlantis in the literary relics of Egypt that have survived.

There used to be an “R. Shand” online (1990s) who claimed that another Greek traveler (name eludes me now) saw a column in Egypt with the Atlantis story written upon it, the trouble is, no such column exists today, the location isn’t given, and the likelihood is he was fed a line by some tour guide, some things never change.

Plato doesn’t discuss Thera that I know of; Herodotus writes quite a bit about it, and neither of them mention any volcanic eruption. This is due to the fact that there was no “supereruption” at all, and both writers were long dead by the time the early 2nd c BC eruption took place (the one cited above, it’s dated to 199 or 197 BC).


23 posted on 08/25/2013 3:50:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting. This caused me to spend about 2 hours reading about Atlantis, Herodotus, Pillars of Hercules, Santorini, looking at Google Maps for Greece, caldera’s,...the number of volcanic eruptions in the Santorini area, all with the entire idea I was going to ‘get’ it.

But then all of a sudden I realized...I was thinking I was going to ‘get’ where Atlantis was, from reading all this.

Just like I also once thought I was going to ‘get’ who Jack the Ripper was, from reading all these books...

Or I was going to ‘get’ what was going on at Borley Rectory by reading all this stuff about it.

Lol.

But what you said was very interesting and enlightening to me, and is fascinating:)
Darn. So, where WAS Atlantis? I guess to start, somewhere in the Atlantic...?;)


37 posted on 08/25/2013 6:56:34 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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