Hugh Akston Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 (edited) It came to my attention after watching a documentary, that the city of Atlantis aka Helike was found in 2001. Interestingly enough one of the first things they found was a coin with Apollo on one side and a dove on the other. See: http://www.helike.org/index.shtml Edited April 3, 2005 by Hugh Akston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Capitalist Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 Pretty interesting discovery! I don't know yet how much this relates to "Atlantis" but either way we can only benefit from this discovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wrath Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Is there any real historical credibility to the idea of Atlantis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Hawk Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 That is a fascinating discovery. If they unearth "dozens" of original bronze and marble works by the Classical sculptors, it will be a treasure trove indeed. Spyridon Marinatos, late Director General of Antiquities and discoverer of the prehistoric town on Santorini, pursued the search for Helike over many years. He estimated (1960) that the site contains dozens of original bronze and marble works of the Classical sculptors. Marinatos (1964) looked forward to "the discovery of a whole ancient town far more precious and interesting than Pompeii" and said it would be "almost surely the most spectacular archaeological discovery ever made." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Capitalist Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 This cannot be THE Atlantis, because the website says Helike was buried under the sea in 370sBC, while Plato makes reference to the mysterious Atlantis in late 400sBC, decades before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Hawk Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 This is from the Helike website: APPENDIX B: HELIKE AND ATLANTIS Taylor (1928) and Frutiger (1930) first suggested that the sudden and dramatic disappearance of Helike, destroyed by an earthquake and submerged in the sea, inspired Plato to devise the myth of Atlantis. See also Forsythe (1980), Giovannini (1985), and Ellis (1998). The story of Atlantis and its destruction first appears in Plato’s late dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written only a few years after the destruction of Helike in 373 BC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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