Atlantis, Real (thera?) or a Myth

[The Stranger]

hmmm, what do you guys think, i think i could have been thera.

[caesar44]

Atlantis ? As real as aliens , big foot , loch ness , ghosts etc'...
The guy (Plato) just wanted to describe an utopia , that is , he wrote how Athens should have been .

[The Stranger]

no i dont think so, he got his source/story translated from the egyptians. he didnt came up with the story.

[caesar44]

Plato said that (the Egyptian thing) , we don't have any proof of him visiting there , don't we ?

[The Stranger]

maybe, maybe not. but there is quite alot of proof around that thera could have been atlantis.

1st the eruption that destroyed thera and crete.
2nd the fact that there had a very advanced society
3rd the lay of the island is the same as Plato described

i can name more but i must look it up

[Kraxis]

The theory is that Atlantis was in fact the Minoan culture. And that fits quite well.

Teh Minoan culture was well alive by the time of the Mycenean time, so the Greeks (and Athenians expecially) could very well have had a lingering memory of them. The fact that when the Myceneans captured Crete, the Minoan culture was changed and anything but centralized anymore, that makes it another state alltogether for the Myceneans.

Now add the Egyptian fears from the eruption of Santorini (Thera) and the resulting tsunami and you have a really good case for a myth that cold rear its not-so-ugly head several centuries later (but who knows, maybe Atlantis was a common tale in the average Greek homes).