Jaime Manuschevich
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Rate Member posted 04-25-2006 06:08 PM
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Originally posted by docyabut:
Frist of all, it was not Plato`s story, it was Critias`s story. The attack and death on Socrates who denied the greek gods was due in large part to Critias.
The story told to the Egyptains was of the end of a empire, in 600 bc the time it was recorded. Tartesso was the captial and its sank.
Critias took the story that was told to Solon, who was not around, and turn it into a tale to glorify the athen gods in their history.
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Tartessos sank? Surprise... nobody has known, because the investigators say another thing...
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Lost civilization
In the 6th century BC, Tartessos disappears rather suddenly from history. The Romans called the wide bay the Tartessius Sinus though the city was no more. One theory is that the city had been destroyed by the Carthaginians who wanted to take over the Tartessans trading routes . Another is that it had been refounded, under obscure conditions, as Carpia. When the traveller Pausanias visited Greece in the 2nd century AD (Paus. Desc. 6.XIX.3) he saw two bronze chambers in one of the sanctuaries at Olympia, which the people of Elis claimed was Tartessian bronze:
"They say that Tartessus is a river in the land of the Iberians, running down into the sea by two mouths, and that between these two mouths lies a city of the same name. The river, which is the largest in Iberia, and tidal, those of a later day called Baetis, and there are some who think that Tartessus was the ancient name of Carpia, a city of the Iberians."
The name "Carpia" possibly survives as El Carpio, a site in a bend of the Guadalquivir, but the origin of its name has been associated with its imposing oldest feature, a Moorish tower erected in 1325 by the engineer responsible for the alcázar of Seville.
The site of Tartessos has been lost—buried under the shifting wetlands that have replaced former estuaries behind dunes at the modern single mouth of the Guadalquivir, where the river delta has gradually been blocked off by a huge sandbar that stretches from the mouth of the Rio Tinto, near Palos de la Frontera, to the riverbank opposite Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The area is now protected as the Parque Nacional de Doñana.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartessos