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Chrissy · Post by **Chrissy** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:05 pm

Waverly: See, that I knew

I gotto go eat, byebye for now

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:06 pm

Bye Chrissy

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:06 pm

See you, Chrissy.

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:07 pm

Bye Bubbly

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:08 pm

Originally posted by Xandax:
Well according to Plato and other theories a possibility is a natural disaster - properly like the eruption of the volcano on Thera.

There seems to be a general acceptance to that a possible Atlantis exited not it the Atlantic but in the Mediterranean

Is't Alantis suppose to be around Alexandria???

Bye Chrissy

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Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:08 pm

These topics shouldn't be done when I am singing loud...

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:09 pm

*IF* Atlantis existed (hasn't been ruled out) Crete fits *most* of the criterea.

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:10 pm

Originally posted by Minerva:
These topics shouldn't be done when I am singing loud...

you singing opera????

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:12 pm

I just recently heard that they believe that Atlantis is somewhere in Greece.

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:13 pm

Originally posted by Flagg:
I just recently heard that they believe that Atlantis is somewhere in Greece.

Isn't Crete Greek?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:14 pm

@Darkpoet: well according to Plato's text the location of Atlantis would be an island in the middle of the Atlantic the size of Libya and Asia. But recent study suggest that it might have been inside the Mediterranean. Maybe as a part of Crete and/or Thera. But this dosn't fit the description of greek history/mythologic. So I rather think it might have been a different island

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:16 pm

Originally posted by Xandax:
@Darkpoet: well according to Plato's text the location of Atlantis would be an island in the middle of the Atlantic the size of Libya and Asia. But recent study suggest that it might have been inside the Mediterranean. Maybe as a part of Crete and/or Thera. But this dosn't fit the description of greek history/mythologic. So I rather think it might have been a different island

I think Plato may have tried to be historically accurate, but was given 'legendary' info as well as actual when compiling his account.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:17 pm

How about the theory of all continents used to be one large continent? I cannot remember the name...

@Darkpoet: Not opera.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:18 pm

Well Plato has always been regarded as a true historian/philosopher - and not one to use imagination.

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:19 pm

@Minerva: Pangea? Pretty well thought of theory with lots of supporting evidence. Still, probably too early to call it a 'fact'.

@Xandax: I agree...it would have been exagerrated info given to him...he likely did not mislead intentionally.

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Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:19 pm

Well the whole area around Crete, alot of it has gone under water.

Minerva · Post by **Minerva** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:20 pm

Originally posted by Waverly:
@Minerva: Pangea? Pretty well thought of theory with lots of supporting evidence. Still, probably too early to call it a 'fact'.

Yes, that is the one. And where the Atlantis fit into it?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:21 pm

@Minerva: much much much later

Atlantis is supposed to have been around 12.000-10.000 BC

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Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:23 pm

@Minerva: Man has only been on the scene 100,000 years or so. The continents haven't moved much in that time. Crete (or was it Thera) was a largish island until a huge volcanic eruption turned it into a thin crescent.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Mar 18, 2001 12:23 pm

Originally posted by Waverly:
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@Xandax: I agree...it would have been exagerrated info given to him...he likely did not mislead intentionally.

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Properly yes - unless ofcouse we can disover Solons text's I don't think we'll be able to find historical evidence. We have to find some kind of artifacts before this theory can be proven.