Timaeus Et Critias: An Ancient Greek Myth

Atlantis, the lost empire home to piles of gold and extravagant cuisine sunk thousands of years ago due to a tsunami able to sink the Asia Minor. Generations later, Plato writes, “Timaeus et Critias” with most Ancient Greeks thinking it’s a myth. From discover, Atlanteans places, ceremonies, and king names scattered within history. A belief that suggests if “Atlantis” was actually Atlantis.

Centuries ago at a time of prosperity, Atlantis was victim to a raging tsunami, strangling the island to the depths of Earth. Atlanteans lost not only bliss and riches, but also their lives to the violent occurrences of the mass drownings, assuring their civilization sunk in anguish— mercy wasn’t served for the sleeping souls of the ancient city.

Atlantis’

fate was a fatal punishment from the Greek gods, (the gods) disgusted by the people’s ethics. Explained in dialogue from Timaeus et Critias,” …but when the divine proportion began to fade away… human nature got the upper hand…” the spiritual virtue of the Atlanteans grew nimble.

At first however, Atlanteans, “…were obedient to laws, and well-affectioned towards the gods…for they possessed great spirits…they despised everything but virtue…” as said by Critias in Plato’s book, Timaeus et Critias.

Consequently, the riches of the Atlanteans soon became their belief of happiness. What mattered most was gold, goods, and cuisine. Like lit by fire, residences sparkled in the sun's rays. By night, feasts were plentiful of fruits, vegetables, meats, and others for taking.

Likewise, the Atlanteans actions drove them into a pitiful plight. Soon, “the gods ‘became angry because the people had lost their way and turned to immoral pursuits’…” National Geographic derives from Charles Orser, curator of History at the New York State Museum in

Albany.

The gods attacked Atlantis and its people with ferocious fires blazing tall in the barren night sky, and a fearsome flood swallowing Atlantis— rendering it ceased from the surface, but found in the trenches of the Atlantic.

Centuries after Atlantis, Plato writes, “Timaeus et Critia”, dialogues of Critias, Timaeus, Socrates, and Hermocrates talking of the empire of Atlantis and its fall to ruins. “The Ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Plato’s story was to be taken as history or mere metaphor” (History.com Staff).

Plato heard the story of Atlantis through his great grandfather, Critias who heard it from his grandfather and so on as Atlantis’ story passed from generation to the next.

Plato’s reason for writing Timaeus et Critias varied to historians. “Neither is there any evidence on the face of this history that Plato sought to convey in it [Timaeus et Critias] a moral or political lesson.” (Atlantis: The Antideluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly). Determined by the hearers of the story, it was a fable or myth.

Throughout history, people considered Atlantis and its destruction a myth up until the 1800s. In the 1800s came along deep-sea soundings, which revolutionized the discussion of Atlantis’ existence.

In the 1800s, American/British gunboats exepidtionized the Atlantic waters, mapping the ocean floor by using images that exploit every crevice and bend it could find at the waters bottom. The maps showed the depths with its random formation including Atlantis’ told of position.

”…the result that an immense bank or ridge of great elevation is shewn to exist in the mid-Atlantic. This ridge stretches in a south-westerly direction…fifty degrees north towards the coast of South America, then in a south-easterly direction towards the coast of Africa. The ridge rises almost sheer about 9,000 feet from the ocean depths around it…” (From William Scot-Elliot’s book, The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria).

Atlantis was not near South America, but in-between the Spanish peninsula and Africa, according to historians. Although, an amount of conspirators of Atlantis believe that area was actually the location of Atlantis.

The Strait of Gibraltar is still a place for investigation. Historians are still split as to if the civilization demolished there was the Minoans, who lived on the island of Santorini, or the Atlanteans or if Atlantis was actually somewhere else.

Like the Atlanteans, a tsunami wiped out the Minoans and their island (with a volcano’s contribution to the destruction). ” But the Minoans had built their…city on one of the most dangerous islands on earth, next to the volcano Thera…1600, B.C. … violent earthquake…eruption occurred…one of largest in human history — blasting more than 10 million tons of ash, gas, and rock 25 miles into the atmosphere” (PBS Networks).

Santorini and Atlantis faced the same fate, one of disaster and deathly destruction. Both civilizations remnant of those ancient lands. The civilizations, however, could have been in a different time and/or place.

Relations to Atlantis and Central America list,”… all the traditions of Central America and Mexico point to some country in the East, and beyond the sea, as the source of their first civilized people; and this region, known among them as ‘Aztlan,’ [Atlantic] lived in… a beautiful and happy land, where their ancestors had dwelt in peace for many generations” (Atlantis: The Antideluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly).

Pyramids structured similarly to those in Atlantis like the Great Pyramid of Giza and Chichen Itza could have used the same arithmetic.

“What probability is there of three or four… nations… advancing at the same speed to… same arts and opinions... on both sides of the Atlantic, have descended one from the other, or… some common source” (Atlantis: The Antideluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly).

Places all over the world have relations to the Atlantic. “An ‘Atlas’ mountain on the shore of Africa; an ‘Atlan’ town on the shore of America; the ‘Atlantes’ living along the north and west coast of Africa; an Aztec people from Aztlan, in Central America; an ocean rolling between the two worlds called the ‘Atlantic;’ a mythological deity called ‘Atlas’ holding the world on his shoulders… Can all these things be the result of accident?

Showings of Atlantic ties are all over the world, Atlantis being the prime suspect for all. Specific conspirators believe that areas of the world were ancient colonies (Egypt, Central America, India, etc.). For most conspirators of Atlantis (such as Ignatius Donnelly) still stands, “That Atlantis was the region where man first rose from a state of barbarism to civilization” for a premise on the lost empire of

Atlantis.