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musiclover420
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Atlantis 1
#23672000 - 09/23/16 07:20 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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What are your thoughts on it? I have been listening to some great music inspired by it a lot lately which led me to do some reading.
It's history is more interesting than I thought, apparently even shortly after Plato coined the term Atlantis/ Atlantean from his works Timaeus and Critias its meaning was heavily debated. Some assumed it was a metaphor of sorts while others thought it was literal/ historical and was actually talking about a place that existed.
Here is an interesting piece from the long wiki page on Atlantis:
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Another passage from Proclus' commentary on the "Timaeus" gives a description of the geography of Atlantis:
That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea. For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia [200 km]; and the inhabitants of it—they add—preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon. Now these things Marcellus has written in his Aethiopica".
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Edited by musiclover420 (09/23/16 07:21 PM)
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Did you ever see the movie 'Atlantis: The Lost Continent" it is about this greek sailor who ventures out and gets taken to Atlantis. It is corny as hell, but hey, its good fantasy stuff. I got a copy recently on Amazon on DVD, it was originally screened in 1961.
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musiclover420
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I have not seen that, I need to catch up on a lot of old movies. I can appreciate corny stuff sometimes though when its done right.
-------------------- Don't worry about me, I've got all that I need. And I'm singing my song to the sky You know how it feels, With the breeze of the sun in your eyes. Not minding that time's passing by I've got all and more, My smile, just as before. Is all that I carry with me I talk to myself, I need nobody else. I'm lost and I'm mine, yes I'm free
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