Message #253715

[Desiree]

Thorwald, you wrote the article, Hans Pettersson didn't. Where is his article?  And you used it just to promote your own Med-based Atlantic theory. Point is, we don't know enough about geology to say that we have all the answers yet, and we know less about the oceans than we know about outer space.

Two points:

1.  Plato does not set Atlantis in the Mediterranean, but in the Atlantic Ocean, read the dialogues, the Greeks knew where the Atlantic Ocean was. Any site you propose in the Med, that is not Atlantis, but one of the myriad civilizations that were there.

2.  We are not proposing a whole continent sunk in the Atlantic, but an island. Islands  rise and fall in the oceans all the time.  Ever hear of Surtsey? Krakotoa?  Santorini?

You are welcome to your opinion, but it isn't Atlantis, why so many Med-based theorists even keep trying to link Atlantis to their favorite sites is beyond me. None of the sites any of you propose bear any resemblance to the land that Plato wrote about, they could just as easily be anything else. I think Atlantis is brought into it because it is "popular," nothing more.