ARKY 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Great Power, Franchthi Cave
6 May 2016
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Santorini, antarctic continent, caribbean , have been linked to the atlantis myth. Even though the caribbean was not a known place at the time. Bermuda triangle,a magnetic force believed to be associated to atlantis. Plato"s dialogues was a literary tool in which plato used to talk about the philosophies he wanted to get across such as political and scientific ideas. Describing the hypothetical power in the mediterean called atlantis. Great power, heavily defensive town with a massive navy. Athens describes as the idealized democratic society. Notions of the military and how they are responsible to the people. In the end of the story, athens ends up defeating atlantis ,the land sinks into the ocean. Plato is not in it, he is just describing the event. United states doesn"t exist as it does now. Looking for other possible stories of an understanding of atlantis besides plato"s story. Battle between greeks and trojans, maybe they have replaced this war instead of the.
