Atlantis - The Lost Continent of Mystery
Atlantis - The Lost Continent of Mystery
If we speak of mystery, one mystery is quite fun for the talk is about the continent of Atlantis. This continent can be said to legend and myth, because until this moment there is no concrete evidence about whether or not the existence of this Atlatis continent.
The story of Atlantis comes from the hands of a filusuf and of the Greek mathematician named Plato. The expected birth of Plato around 427 BC century is the founder of the Platonic Academy in Athens, the first high school level in the western world. He was a pupil of Socrates. It is made the way the mind of Plato was much influenced by the flow of Socrates. Plato was the teacher of Aristotle. Plato mentioned died while writing in about 347 SM.
In the second book by Plato, Timaeus and Critias, mentioned about the existence of this magical continent. In the books of Plato states that Atlantis lay "beyond the pillars of Hercules, and has a very strong navy". Mentioned that the lost continent of Atlantis sank the ocean swallowed up in just 1 day 1 night.
Excerpted from the book Timaeus:
In front of Mainstay Haigelisi Strait, there is a very large island, from there you can go to other islands, in front of the islands are wholly inland sea surrounded by ocean, it is the kingdom of Atlantis. When the new Atlantis will launch a major war with Athens, but unexpectedly, Atlantis suddenly experienced an earthquake and floods, not until a day and night, completely submerged in the sea floor, a large state that goes beyond high civilization, vanished overnight.
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Apart from the books of Plato, there is no special note of the continent Atlantis, which makes most people think the story of Atlantis is a story of fiction or myth. But there are some notes that may be mentioned concerns about Atlantis. Among writings Proclus, one of the ancient Greek historian of departure Crantor (a pupil of a pupil of Plato, Xenocrates), traveled to Egypt and found the inscription contains the history of Atlantis written in letters heroglif.
More modern note came in the 19th century, where several American scholars, beginning with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon, stated that relate to Atlantis Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
Some modern historians who believed in the existence of Atlantis mentions that the island like Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus and Malta; cities like Troy, Tartessos, and Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey, and Israel-Sinai or Canaan could be an indicator of the existence of Atlantis . Major eruption of Mount Thera in the 17th century BC-16 or to have caused a huge tsunami experts who allegedly destroyed the Minoan civilization around the island of Crete which further increased the confidence that this disaster may also be a catastrophe that destroyed Atlantis at the same time.
The existence of Atlantis began to make credible much speculation about the actual location of this atlantis, some have argued that Atlantis is located in Northern Europe, the Canary Islands, the Strait of Gibraltar Antarctica, Indonesia, under the Bermuda Triangle, and the Caribbean Sea.
Whether what is right. Did Atlantis really exist, or is Atlantis merely myth and fairy tale to lull children to nature in her dream when the nights are lonely. It all comes back to the continent of Atlantis was the bearer of the story: Plato. (Source and references: Wikipedia).
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