Retrieved November 6, 2001, from | Le Colonne d'Ercole: Un'inchiesta, Rome: Nur neon |
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, Bloomington: Indiana University Press | Flem-Ath R, Wilson C 2001 |
The Minoan kingdom was very powerful thousands of years before Plato, and their society was damaged when a erupted on their island.
Atlantis has appeared in many works of fiction | When they stopped being good people and did bad things, the gods sent earthquakes and fire to destroy Atlantis |
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Many, many people have thought of many, many places where the real place that inspired Atlantis could have been | , Atlantis — Atlantology: Basic Problems, Translated from the Russian by David Skvirsky, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970 |
According to Plato, the Atlanteans lived 9000 years before his own time and were half human and half god.
He used this story to help explain his ideas about and | Then other people became interested in Atlantis |
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For example, set his stories in a fictional time called the Hyborian Age, which began with the destruction of Atlantis and ended when real written history started | 'The origin of the Atlantis myth', Trivium, vol |