The Lost City of Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?
There have been many stories over the years that have captured the imaginations of men but none so much as the Plato's story about the Lost City if Atlantis. So is this story fact or fiction? Well nobody really knows, but there have been a lot of guesses and theories over the years, some with evidence and some without.
It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C.
In Plato's books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people to express his ideas. In the story of Atlantis there is a man named Kritias telling the story of Atlantis that has apparently been in his family for several generations. It was Poseidon that established the city of Atlantis; the city was a wonder to all who had the good luck to see it. The city had walls and canals, hot water fountains and cold water fountains, irrigation systems for the farms that were outside the city, it was a marvel that was before its time!
Probably the most wonderful object in the entire city was the temple that was on a hill in the very center of the city, in this building you could find a huge statue of Poseidon riding in a chariot being carried along by winged horses....the whole city revolved around worshiping Poseidon, the god of the sea.
The first person to believe that the city of Atlantis was more than just a myth was a man who lived during the 1800's named Ignatius Donnelly. He believed that the city really did exist but it was destroyed by a natural disaster. In 1882, Donnelly published a book named Atlantis, the Antediluvian World; in this book Donnelly states that the city of Atlantis was somewhere on the middle of the Atlantic ocean and that the Atlantian civilization was the place where that civilization started and through colonizing places like Egypt, civilization spread in the rest of the world.
The only problem with all of this is the fact that it has been proved scientifically impossible for the lost city of Altanis to
It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C.
In Plato's books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people to express his ideas. In the story of Atlantis there is a man named Kritias telling the story of Atlantis that has apparently been in his family for several generations. It was Poseidon that established the city of Atlantis; the city was a wonder to all who had the good luck to see it. The city had walls and canals, hot water fountains and cold water fountains, irrigation systems for the farms that were outside the city, it was a marvel that was before its time!
Probably the most wonderful object in the entire city was the temple that was on a hill in the very center of the city, in this building you could find a huge statue of Poseidon riding in a chariot being carried along by winged horses....the whole city revolved around worshiping Poseidon, the god of the sea.
The first person to believe that the city of Atlantis was more than just a myth was a man who lived during the 1800's named Ignatius Donnelly. He believed that the city really did exist but it was destroyed by a natural disaster. In 1882, Donnelly published a book named Atlantis, the Antediluvian World; in this book Donnelly states that the city of Atlantis was somewhere on the middle of the Atlantic ocean and that the Atlantian civilization was the place where that civilization started and through colonizing places like Egypt, civilization spread in the rest of the world.
The only problem with all of this is the fact that it has been proved scientifically impossible for the lost city of Altanis to