09-24-2025, 10:12 AM
This post was last modified: 09-24-2025, 10:19 AM by quintessentone.
@ AllSeeingEye
The writings of Atlantis are all steeped in mythological gods and a blatant lack of anyone knowing anything about geology.
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THEOPOMPUS"
The account survives in Aelian's Various History [3.18].
"Amongst other things," we are told, "Silenus told Midas that Europe, Asia and Africa were islands surrounded by the ocean: that there was but one continent only, which was beyond this world, and that as to magnitude it was infinite." In the island were "men twice as big as those here" who "lived to double our age," echoing tales of the Macrobians of southernmost Ethiopia."
"One possible explanation of Theopompus' account is that it is a mockery of Plato's Atlantis.
In both accounts we meet substantial military forces possessed of vast amounts of material wealth. Additionally, Theopompus, in all likelihood a student of Plato's great rival Isocrates, was a fierce critic of Plato, writing a polemic against him."
Who else wrote about Atlantis?
Isocrates - Wikipedia
Should we now be looking in the southernmost regions of Ethiopia?
The writings of Atlantis are all steeped in mythological gods and a blatant lack of anyone knowing anything about geology.
--------
THEOPOMPUS"
The account survives in Aelian's Various History [3.18].
"Amongst other things," we are told, "Silenus told Midas that Europe, Asia and Africa were islands surrounded by the ocean: that there was but one continent only, which was beyond this world, and that as to magnitude it was infinite." In the island were "men twice as big as those here" who "lived to double our age," echoing tales of the Macrobians of southernmost Ethiopia."
"One possible explanation of Theopompus' account is that it is a mockery of Plato's Atlantis.
In both accounts we meet substantial military forces possessed of vast amounts of material wealth. Additionally, Theopompus, in all likelihood a student of Plato's great rival Isocrates, was a fierce critic of Plato, writing a polemic against him."
Who else wrote about Atlantis?
Isocrates - Wikipedia
Should we now be looking in the southernmost regions of Ethiopia?
"The only journey is the one within."
