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Timaeus on Atlantis in Eight Parallel Editions

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« Reply #15 on: November 16, 2007, 11:31:46 am »

It doesn't matter.  We know the Atlantic and Aegean cannot be logically equated to one another in Plato's Dialogues because the island of Atlantis which was at a minimum 2000 X 3000 stadia (345 miles X 230 miles) cannot fit there -especially -and this is the really important part -when the massive peninsula of prediluvian Hellas occupied this sea before it sank leaving behind the Cyclades and other islands as "bones of a wasted body".

Besides that, maps from around Solon's time show and mark the Atlantic Ocean on the other side of Gibraltar.  In fact the Greeks had already founded a colony in eastern Iberia by 500 B.C. proving that they had plied and explored the Western Med at that time.  

Horus, are you sure that the plains of Atlantis
had this size? What about errors typically made
with numbers? Could be that the plains had this size.
Could not be.

We do not know maps from Solon's times.
We can assume that Solon knew Gibraltar,
and this is almost certain.
But we have no maps, resp. map descritptions.
The first maps are from the scholars of Milet,
this is shortly after Solon's time.

It is important to know the geographical knowledge of Solon's time.
But wouldn't it be much more interesting to know the geographical
knowledgte of that egyptian writer, who wrote the Atlantis report
"9000 years" ago?

@Danaus:
Hm, you think you can find errors in the tradition of the greek text by
examining the Latin translation?
Have you found some errors? Can you demonstrate an example?
This would be interesting.
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