- Boa noite amigo visitante!
- Lembra-se de quantas vezes já ouviu falar da existência da Atlântida?
- Imagino que muitas.
- Eu idem.
- E quantas teorias diferentes já leu ou ouviu a respeito do desaparecimento da Atlântida?
- Última pergunta, das dez teorias abaixo, sobre a existência/desaparecimento da Atlântida, qual a sua predileta?
- O site de onde importei este post é ótimo e merece sua atenção.
- Viu? A especialidade dele são as Top Ten. O texto está em inglês. Mas inglês é mais fácil que português. Antes do texto em inglês você poderá ler o que a Wikipédia diz da Atlântida em português.
- Divirta-se que foi só pra isso que nascemos.
ATLÂNTIDA NA WIKIPEDIA
Atlântida ou Atlantis (em grego, Ἀτλαντίς - "filha de Atlas") é uma lendária ilha cuja primeira menção conhecida remonta a Platão em suas obras "Timeu ou a Natureza" e "Crítias ou a Atlântida".
Nos contos de Platão, Atlântida era uma potência naval localizada "na frente das Colunas de Hércules", que conquistou muitas partes da Europa Ocidental e África 9.000 anos antes da era de Solon, ou seja, aproximadamente 9600 a.C.. Após uma tentativa fracassada de invadir Atenas, Atlântida afundou no oceano "em um único dia e noite de infortúnio".
Estudiosos discutem se e como a história ou conto de Platão foi inspirada por antigas tradições. Alguns pesquisadores argumentam que Platão criou a história mediante memórias de eventos antigos como a erupção de Thera ou a guerra de Tróia, enquanto outros insistem que ele teve inspiração em acontecimentos contemporâneos, como a destruição de Helique em 373 a.C.[1] ou a fracassada invasão ateniense da Sicília em 415–413 a.C..
A possível existência de Atlântida foi...
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Top 10 Theories about the Lost City of Atlantis
10. Accounts of Atlantis are fictional
The traditional position maintained by most scientists and historians over the years is that Plato’s account of a fabulously wealthy city as told in the Critias and Timaeus was merely a fictional story designed to both entertain and enlighten his readers as to the dangers of hubris and turning one’s back on the gods, and was never intended to be interpreted as an account of a real place or real events. Evidence for this is suggested by the fact that Plato tells us the island was given to the Greek god Poseidon, who fell in love with the beautiful daughter of Atlantis’ first king—named, not coincidentally I suspect, Atlas—and begat numerous children by her, to whom he promptly parceled out parts of the island to. He also tells us the Atlanteans were defeated by an alliance of Greek and Eastern Mediterranean peoples around 12,000 years ago—thousands of years before the earliest civilizations even emerged in the region—making the entire story unlikely to say the least. The question, then, is that if we are compelled to take any of the story as true, aren’t we logically obligated to accept everything—including a procreating god and a skewed timeline—as true as well? Does give one pause to wonder.
9. Atlantis was fictional but the accounts of a world-wide Deluge were true
Plato makes numerous references to a great deluge occurring thousands of years before his time that destroyed almost the whole world, leaving only a tiny fragment of humanity left to repopulate the globe and start civilization anew. The story of Atlantis, then, while itself a manifestation of Plato’s fertile imagination, may have been inspired by a real historical event—in this case, a massive global flood—that may have taken place ten thousand years before he was born. Could this be some distant memory of the end of the last Ice Age, when global ocean levels rose by hundreds of feet in just a few centuries, submerging entire landmasses in the process, embellished through each retelling, or could it have been something else (such as a meteor strike in the ocean that produced enormous devastation throughout the world?)
8. Atlantis was a continent that existed in the mid-Atlantic as was destroyed by natural catastrophes
For the purest, this remains the traditional understanding and the one originally postulated by nineteenth century writer and Atlantisphile Ignatius Donnelly in his 1882 book, Atlantis, the Antediluvian World, who imagined the Atlantic Ocean to be no more than a few hundred feet deep and prone to occasional vertical shifting. Since so little was known about the ocean in his day, his theory was considered plausible by many at the time—at least until the advent of modern oceanography, when it was determined that the Atlantic was up to five miles deep in spots and not prone towards creating massive continents. While this essentially torpedoed poor Ignatius’ hypothesis as far as science was concerned, some continue to hold to it with great tenacity largely because of Plato’s insistence that the place existed just outside the “Pillars of Hercules” (an ancient term for the modern Straits of Gibraltar), implying that it had to lie somewhere in the mid Atlantic. link-do-texto-na-TopTen
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Jeff Danelek is a Denver, Colorado author who writes on many subjects having to do with history, politics, the paranormal, spirituality and religion. To see more of his stuff, visit his website at http://www.ourcuriousworld.com/.
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