City Of Atlantis
Basic Structure of Research Report
Introduction (this will be a long paragraph) give background information such as: what is the myth, how long has it been a myth, what is the mystery surrounding the myth – just generally inform your reader about this myth.
Thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
Sample thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth because it is not a traditional tale, but one contrived by …show more content…
Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
Body paragraph 2: The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one
Introduction (this will be a long paragraph) give background information such as: what is the myth, how long has it been a myth, what is the mystery surrounding the myth – just generally inform your reader about this myth.
Thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
Sample thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth because it is not a traditional tale, but one contrived by …show more content…
Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
Body paragraph 2: The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one