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Topic: Location hypotheses of Atlantis


In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  Atlantis - Plato's account, Receptions, Location hypotheses, Atlantis in art, literature and popular culture
Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "Island of Atlas") is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato.
Donnelly took Plato's account of Atlantis seriously and attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from its high neolithic culture.
During the late 19 and later gave its geographical location as the Caribbean, and proposed that Atlantis was an ancient, now-submerged, highly-evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.
encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/2055/Atlantis.html   (2052 words)

  
  Location hypotheses of Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Plato states that Atlantis was located beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the name given to the Strait of Gibraltar linking the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantis itself has been identified with the island of Heligoland off the north-west German coast by the author Jurgen Spanuth, who postulates that it was destroyed during the Bronze Age around 1200 BCE, only to partially re-emerge during the Iron Age.
Atlantis Motherland, by authors Flying Eagle and Whispering Wind, published in 2003, locates the Island of Atlantis beneath the Sea of Azov and on the adjacent fertile plains to the west in Ukraine and to the east in Krasnodar Kray, Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis   (3812 words)

  
 Atlantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time, which would be well into the most recent ice age.
The geographer Strabo locates the two mythical islands of the Odyssey, Ogygia (inhabited by Circe) and Scheria (inhabited by the Phaeacians) in the Atlantic Ocean (Geography 1.2.18).
Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea, either islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Cyprus, Malta, and Ponza or as land based cities or states such as Troy, Andalucia or Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey, and the new theory of Israel-Sinai or Canaan as possible locations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlantis   (2392 words)

  
 Atlantis - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Atlantis might be a work of fiction, yet an extended parable intended to illustrate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government.
Morgan le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and the Fisher King are all Atlanteans, and Merlin is the son of an Atlantean princess and a Celtic Druid.
In Stargate Atlantis, taken place at the end of season 7 of Stargate SG-1 (The Lost City), the SGC finds out that the city known as Atlantis was a city of technology and science, which left the planet for another galaxy, the Pegasus Galaxy.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Atlantis   (5369 words)

  
 Sunda Plain
Some investigators believe that Atlantis is in the Eastern Hemisphere, which would have the location in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
Because some basic and nomadic civilizations began around the Mediterranean area, which is also part of the Cradle of Humanity (Between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, modern day Iraq), some believe that Atlantis is located here.
Some factors that weigh toward this location was the Minoan civilization, which flourished on...
www.experiencefestival.com /sunda_plain   (253 words)

  
 Atlantis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time.
Plato's accounts of Atlantis are in his works ''Timaeus'' and ''Critias''; these are the earliest known references to the mythological civilization of the Atlanteans.
Most of the historical proposed locations are in or nearby the Mediterranean, either islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Cyprus, Malta, and Ponza or as land based cities or states such as Troy, Andalucia or Tantalus (in province of Manisa, Turkey) as possible locations.
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 Atlantis -
Proclus, in his commentary on Plato's Timaeus mentions that Marcellus, relying on ancient historians, stated in his Aethiopiaka that in the Outer Ocean (which meant all oceans, not just the Atlantic) there were seven small islands dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon.
Locations as far as Antarctica, Indonesia and the Caribbean have been proposed as Atlantis' site.
The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar is a proposed location which would coincide with some elements of Plato's account; location (just outside the Pillars of Hercules) and date of submersion (9000 years before Plato).
psychcentral.com /psypsych/wiki/Atlantis   (2281 words)

  
 Atlantis: No way, No how, No where (Skeptical Briefs September 2001)
Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet," predicted that Atlantis would be uncovered in 1968 or 1969; nineteenth century mystic Madame Blavatsky claimed that she had spent seven years in Tibet studying with Hindu mahatmas who taught her about the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Atlantis is mentioned by no one before Plato, and was never part of the broader interconnected traditions of ceramic art, poetry, literary allusions, local legends, or monumental architecture.
The claim of Atlantis's location is fairly precise: The Mediterranean is the "haven" with a "narrow entrance," i.e., the pillars of Hercules.
www.csicop.org /sb/2001-09/atlantis.html   (3447 words)

  
 Atlantis at Caribbean Topfunwebsites   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the ''Rifts'', Atlantis is a continent in the Atlantic west of the Caribbean that rises back out of the sea in the far future.
In ''Stargate Atlantis'', taken place at the end of season 7 of '''' (The Lost City), the SGC finds out that the city known as Atlantis was a city of technology and science, which left the planet for another galaxy, the Pegasus Galaxy.
Atlantis has inspired an instrumental by The Shadows, a song by Donovan and concept albums by jazz artist Sun Ra, Netherlands band Earth and Fire, British band Prefab Sprout, England battle metal band and Germany death metal band Atrocity.
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 Atlantis Checklist
One of the most fascinating features of Plato's Atlantis was the vast network of canals used for the double purpose of irrigating its extensive agricultural plains and for the fluvial transportation of their produce.
In other words, Atlantis' capital city was a replica of the world itself, with the circular canal representing the world-encircling ocean, and the two crossing ones representing the Four Rivers of Paradise.
Atlantis has not been found before because it has been sought in the wrong side of the world, perhaps as the result of ethnocentric biases and white supremacist preconceptions.
www.atlan.org /articles/checklist   (13204 words)

  
 Location quotient Definition / Location quotient Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As an alternative, basic and non-basic concepts are operationalized using employment data.
location quotient is a measure which tells you how different a census tract is relative to the overall city.
location quotient is a measure of an industry’s concentration in an area relative to the rest of the nation.
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 Atlantis
The same thesis of a mistake of multiplication by ten is used by the proponents of the Cretan Atlantis as regards the dimensions of the island, for the numbers Plato gives in Critias do not quite fit in with their theory, to put it mildly.
As we have already said, proponents of various hypotheses requiring some adjustment of Plato's data to suit the existing convenient sites, are fond of using the assertion of a numerical mistake consisting in the multiplication of numerals by ten, not only as regards the time, but also the dimensions of the plain.
The hill is located approximately in the middle of the greater length of the plain in question (See again map of the Celtic Shelf).
www.nii.net /~obie/atlantis.htm   (6086 words)

  
 Possible locations of Atlantis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Santos, is that when Plato spoke of the Ocean of Atlantis, he was not speaking of the ocean that we today call Atlantic Ocean, but of the whole ocean that encircles Eurasia and Africa.
Santos hence concludes that Atlantis is really located in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, which was considered to be the eastward extension the modern Atlantic Ocean.
Furthermore, dating of the ice core taken at the Vostok station shows that the ice sheet there is at least 420,000 years old, and the continent is estimated to have been ice covered for 5 to 30 million years.
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 Atlantis - Atlantis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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This is a concept album about the rise and fall of Atlantis and is meant to be listened to as whole.
calloway.bloggerus.com /Atlantis   (2766 words)

  
 Atlantis & Ancient History - Atlantis Rising
If You consider scientist the work made by these authors on Atlantis in Indonesia, she is because or You have a concept a little deformed of which it is the true scientific rigor or because You you demand very little to the scientific method.
This fact is what the defenders and followers of the hypotheses of Indonesia really fear, the Antártida, the Andes, the Caribbean, the Antártida, in aim of all the existing hypotheses on Atlantis far from Gibraltar and the Madeiras.
This is what the followers of all the existing hypotheses fear more not only on Atlantis but until those consuming readers of mysteries and enigmas of the past and of course the book publishers and magazines specialized in mysteries.
forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000304-6.html   (2733 words)

  
 Atlantis
Santos hence concludes that Atlantis is really located in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, which was considered to be the eastward extension of the modern Atlantic Ocean, even though it is impossible that knowledge of such a place could reach a place as far away as Egypt.
One strange idea relating to Atlantis, is that as a result of an alleged 'Martian Eclipse' the coordinates of Atlantis are supposed to be revealed.
Ridiculous you might think, but their are actually many secret cults that believe so much in this fact, that you can't help but wonder if they know something that we don't.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Atlantis.html   (5390 words)

  
 Atlas
Plato and his dialogues : Home - Biography - Works - History of interpretation - New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version.
For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
It has moved passed the limits of the world Alcibiades wanted to conquer, as if to tell him that there is no end to such dreams of conquest and to the world at hand, and taken over the name of what was only for Herodotus the beginning of the unexplored world (Histories, IV, 185).
plato-dialogues.org /tools/char/atlas.htm   (611 words)

  
 Beyond Atlantis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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