Role Of Helike In Greek Society

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Athenian society:

Professor of archaeology Ken Feder argues that the legend, told by Plato is to praise the values of Athenian society.

Helike:

Atlantologists believe that what Plato writes about is pre-history not ancient history, more of an event during his own lifetime, and that the real Atlantis was the lost city-state of Helike. Helike was the leading city-state in classical Greece in its time. One night in 373 BCE Helike was wiped off the face of the earth by a tremendous cataclysm as a lethal cyclone and earthquake sink it beneath the waves.

Was destructed when he was 54 and he must of known about it. Many more affected Grease in the previous 50 years before that, several of which had enormous military and political repercussion’s

• Both worshipped Poseidon as their principal god and had important sanctuaries to the sea-deity in the centre of their respective capitals.

• Both disappeared completely beneath the engulfing waves.

• In both cases they were both believed to be punished by their citizens’ sins. The destruction of Helike was believed to be a punishment for the cities arrogance in refusing to support temples of Poseidion there God.

Given these similarities, if he wanted to invent Atlantis as a civilization he could of based it on Helike to illustrate his political philosophy, as a basis of a rise and fall of a cytaclysmic destruction, these thoughts could of possibly formed the story of Atlantis.

Thera:

It is belies that Plato go the location and the date of its destruction wrong as the city is actually near Akrotiri, on the island of Thera, which the island of thera is actually the city of Atlantis.

Plato seems to place is lost continent squarely in the Atlantic, the ocean that derived its name from the mighty kingdom.

Many scholars believe Atlantis is something that Plato drew on legends of a real place, but made mistakes in the way it was translated or transmitted, or was confused about dates and measurements.

Plato’s accounts also state that Atlanteans also established colonies in the continent to the west of Atlantis (presumably America) and on the east of the Atlantic, as well as having conquered most of the western Mediterranean. Even if the city of Atlantis did disappear with all archaeological evidence there should be archaeological evidence in places which survived.

Plato also tells us that the large mass that was Atlantis was submerged just below the waves, debating if it did exist it should be easily evident under the sea.

The central and northern Atlantic Ocean connected directly with the Indian Ocean, beacause Blavatsky tells us: The area between (the) Atlas (mountains) and Madagascar was occupied by the ocean waters till the early part of Atlantis, when Africa emerged from the bottom of the ocean and Atlas was half