Sunday, December 20, 2020

Is this Atlantis?




 


There is an old idea that Plato's Atlantis account is about the Trojan War.  If true, it would make Troy identical with Atlantis. 

There are a lot of angles here where a person would look across three water channels, like the Atlantis account mentions.  


Plato tells us that the plain of Atlantis was roughly rectangular, and that it had a "trench" around it.  About this trench he says, "It received the streams which came down from the mountains and after circling round the plain, and coming towards the city on this side and on that, it discharged them thereabouts into the sea" (Zangger, The Flood From Heaven,1992, p 33) (Critias, 118d). 









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