Atlantis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Bodard
Creators: Gabriel Bodard
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 15, 2024 04:47 PM
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History
tags:
Mythical
Atlantis is the mythical island state used by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias as an example of a powerful and hubristic nation. It has widely been used in later literature, and speculation in pseudo-history and conspiracy theory.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633625629
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- Atlantis (English, modern)
- Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος (Atlantis Nesos: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Less than certain: Atlantis located west of Columnae Herculis (550 BC - 330 BC)
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island, state (polity)
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- See Further:
Pleiades
Gabriel Bodard, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Atlantis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633625629> [accessed: 17 January 2025]
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