![]() ![]() Congressman published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopic civilization? For that, you can mostly blame (or thank) Ignatius Donnelly. It’s a landmass large enough that, if it really existed somewhere underwater in the Atlantic, it would certainly appear on sonar maps of the ocean floor. It was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere outward from the Strait of Gibraltar. In Plato’s texts, Atlantis was “larger than Libya and Asia combined,” (which, in Plato’s time, would have referred to modern-day northern Africa and over half of Turkey). So much so that provide it was a real island, one is left to ponder, where was the lost city of Atlantis supposed to be? The quest for the lost Atlantis has fascinated people for thousands of years. Read More: City of Gold: The Continued Quest for El Dorado The residents of Atlantis, on the other hand, were eventually “filled with an unjust lust for possessions and power,” according to Plato’s character who described the island. According to Gentzler, it should be small and virtuous, and reject ostentation. ![]()
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