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In the story of the Atlantis, such scholars believe that Plato was sending a warning to the Greeks on the dangers of political ambitions, and promoting nobility for personal gain.
Interestingly, most of the proposed sites are not within the Atlantic Ocean. Also, some of the sites are scholarly hypothesis while other sites have been made by pseudoscientific means. Most of the proposed sites share similar characteristics of the Atlantis story including time period, water, and the catastrophic end. Most of the proposed sites are in or near the Mediterranean Sea because of the location of Egypt from where the story was allegedly derived. Plato laid out the details for what such a state would look like in his famous work, The Republic.
According to Gentzler, it should be small and virtuous, and reject ostentation. It was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere outward from the Strait of Gibraltar. So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopic civilization? For that, you can mostly blame or thank Ignatius Donnelly. In , the former U. Congressman published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Donnelly was inspired, says Adams, by a remarkable discovery in the early s. In the years after Columbus brought news of the New World back to Europe, many claimed that America was the fabled Atlantis.
But the search really gained steam in the 20th and 21st centuries. Some searchers have pointed to a volcanic eruption that destroyed parts of the island of Santorini around BCE, wiping out Minoan settlements.
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