July 11 - 2010: Spain and Atlantis - on etemenanki
The legend of Atlantis comes exclusively from Plato's writings Timaeus & Critias in which more or less the only clue given for the location of the mythical island/continent is the 'Pillars of Hercules' also known as the Strait of Gibratar.
Atlantis was said to lie somewhere beyond it, as Plato wrote:
For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island [i.e. Atlantis] which was larger than Libya and Asia together;
and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent...
Posted: 11:15:22 AM
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