What Is Atlantis Fact Or Fiction?

Introduction

This report will highlight the multiple theories of Atlantis and attempt to answer the age old question of whether the fabled city was fact or fiction. There are over thousands of theories related to Atlantis and as Charles Oren curator of History at the New York state Museum in Albany “Pick a spot on the map and someone has said that Atlantis was there” [1]. Though the story of Atlantis is over 2000 years old, there are still new theories around the possible location of the city/continent. These theories include the Atlantic Atlantis , that Antarctica was once Atlantis, , that Atlantis was Ireland and or the British isles, that Atlantis lies in a national park in Spain and finally the most popular theory today, that Atlantis

Solon then heard the tale from the Egyptians and passed down the tale. The Atlantis Dialogues was supposedly to have three chapters highlighting the points of view from three Greek men, Timaues, Critias (the grandson of the previously mentioned Critias) and Hermocrates. However Plato never finished the Atlantis dialogues and the second chapter ends abruptly mid-sentence. It is important to note that only Plato wrote about the tale of Atlantis, though there were multiple ancient writers who commented on its location and whether it existed.

The tale highlights a massive continent that had strong trade ties with the rest of the known world at the time such as Egypt and Athens. The tale also states that the civilisation was advanced, cultured and finally it vanished within a day after its actions had angered the gods in particular Poseidon. Atlantis was implied to be some constellation price for Poseidon after failing to take Athens from Athena. The text states that Poseidon created Atlantis to house his mortal wife, in which the centre island protected her. The tale also states that Poseidon had 10 off spring who then divided up Atlantis

Palaeontologists and Prehistoric botanists have found traces of a leafy type plant fossilized under kilometres of Antarctic ice. Though there are some “leafy” plants that endure and survive in a dry climate as seen in the flora that inhabits the Continent of Australia, any plant cannot thrive let alone survive in an area with minimal sunlight. Scientifically scientist believe that the Antarctic was once attached to the super continent Pangea which was somewhat situated near the equator and as the tectonic plates moved it caused various landmasses to reach colder areas, Antarctica was said to have gone through