Brief Introduction to
Atlantis
According to ancient myth, the name of the vast island-continent,
and the many civilizations which flourished on it, before being
destroyed in a cataclysm.
There are numerous legends regarding Atlanteans and how their
advanced civilization was destroyed by either their misuse of power
or as punishment for moral decay. In the Middle Ages few doubted
that Atlantis had existed. Many theories suggesting the exact
location of the lost island have been advanced (most focusing in
the area currently occupied by the Atlantic Ocean), and the nature
of its utopian political system has been discussed extensively.
Explorers have traveled thousands of miles looking for traces of
its culture and over forty locations for the site have been
identified around the globe, but no real evidence of its existence
has ever been discovered.
Plato gave the first account of Atlantis in various dialogues
around 350 BC, describing the Atlanteans as a wealthy, successful,
politically advanced and militarily powerful society that overrun
Europe with their armies, being only defeated and repulsed by the
Greeks. Shortly afterwards and Earthquake caused Atlantis to sink
beneath the ocean. Plato recounts the story of Egyptian priests who
200 years earlier had reportedly described Atlantis as a powerful
island empire seeking to dominate the Mediterranean world more than
9,000 years before Plato's time. The island was supposedly larger
than Libya and Asia Minor combined and had been located in the
Atlantic Ocean, west of the Pillars of Hercules.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos
