Atlantis, this fabled land, is now almost 2500 years ago are back in vogue and can certainly be seen in very different ways. It can be the spiritual realms, sprung from the imagination, to assign and examine what content and what promises to be attributed to the country.
is similar to the author, Pierre Vidal-Naquet before. He himself is one of the greats of French history, and all claimed to be fond of dogmatic focus since the 50s of the 20th Century and over again on Atlantis. As the subtitle of his newly published book suggests, is with him excluded a material existence of Atlantis from the outset. That this is the case, not all authors, is also on this book.
Vidal-Naquet preferably an intellectual history approach of what he dubbed the "Atlantis Syndrome".
The starting point is, what else? be of the Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In this Atlantis acts as a negative utopia in contrast to an ideal Ur-Athens. Level work, then one of the theses of the book, the war against the Ur-Athens Atlantis to the descriptions of Herodotus be modeled. The latter also mentioned as the Atlantian people west of the Maghreb region. On examination of Plato's Atlantis Vidal-Naquet is therefore to the view that the Atlantis is referred to Athens. The thesis represents the author himself put it, already Giuseppe Bartoli, 1779, interpreted the myth of a political dimension. In the Platonic Atlantis if it were to support maritime imperial Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian Wars, which is contrasted with an ideal Ur-Athens. So that the story of Atlantis is far from over, as anyone who has dealt with this myth once. Over the years of Plato's creation to this day always been against monopolization and attempts to locate Atlantis.
Many scholars, including some representing archaeologists who believe they have found Atlantis. It was identified by the Greek archaeologists Spyridon Marinatos with the island of Santorini, by Eberhard Zangger with Troy and KT Frost with Minoan Crete (excavated in 1900 by Athur Evans). The two Greek theses (Marinatos and frost) are occasionally a focus, such as when a volcano eruption on Santorini blamed for the downfall of the Minoan culture.
Athanasius Kircher in turn, the Canary Islands, believed to be the remains of Atlantis and Voltaire, the island of Madeira.
addition, there is the suggestion of Jacques Collina-Girard, who represented the thesis that Plato's Atlantis the west on the inspiration of an archipelago of Strait of Gibraltar is based, which in the last period of glaciation would have sunk, a 14 by 5 kilometer island with numerous satellites.
Atlantis was previously identified with Palestine (Jacques-Julien Bonnard, 1786) and with nationalist intention of Spaniards at the time of discovery and conquest of America with Mexico. But not only the Spaniards were trying times, Atlantis strike their territory. Curious sure the writings from Olof Rudbeck, who moved to Sweden in the mythical land. Two British, one Irish and German versions are also listed in this narrow band while the latter does Helgoland to the Atlantic capital, and Jesus the Atlanteans.
That the original negative utopia Plato had given a positive long while, of course this by itself
This book documents and criticizes Vidal-Naquet, besides the different archaeological results of the various ideas that have been connected with Atlantis and will be. Especially the documentary perspective highlights the importance this mythical land as a screen for a variety of ideas very clearly. In this work
could be expanded many times since the imaginations of the occult history of ideas, some of theosophical tradition, unfortunately, are still largely ignored. Fabre d'Olivet is only for the stated occult interpretation of Atlantis.
Vidal-Naquet has thus a very informative book written on the subject, which is very readable and well as providing inspiration for further reading. From this slim volume based or it could be made taking into account both more research and fantastic creations. For exhausted is the theme of Atlantis still not sure.
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