![]() Ramage, who contributed his effort to their number - all got the bee in their bonnet from a single source, a pair of Platonic dialogues from the early fourthĬentury B.C. The Atlantis story partakes of at least three generic myths: the Golden Age, an idealized time and place where mankind lived in harmony and ease a decline from the Golden Age into corruption and strife (theĪncient world cottoning more to the notion of degeneration than improvement) and cataclysm by fire or flood, the Weather Channel gone haywire.Īs Ellis points out, the 2,000 or so books written about Atlantis - by the estimate of one E. In ''Imagining Atlantis'' Richard Ellis has written an entertaining, thorough yet readable account of the geological and archeological evidence that may have contributed to this peculiar myth, and of the lunatic fringe that has made He last time I was in Atlantis, the waiter sneered at my choice of wine, a cheap local vintage from the barrel, far tastier than the pricey bottles he had to offer.Īctually, it was the bar of the Hotel Atlantis on Santorini, almost 30 years ago, and the rush to capitalize on the popular identification of the legendary lost continent with this Greek island -what remained of it after a great volcanicĮruption three and a half thousand years ago - had just begun. Invented by Plato to further an argument, the story of Atlantis has attracted true believers down the ages.
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