"Atlantis is located beyond the Pillars of Hercules." What did he mean by this?
Atlantis was west of Gibraltar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules
USA is Atllantis
>>491043
Which book does he say this in?
>>491093
Timaeus I think. Maybe Critias as well.
It's just a story, ffs.
>>491043
Like Aladin being in China or Peter Pan being in neverland.
>>491152
>Aladin
>Aladdin in China
Lmfao, didn't know anyone was this retarded.
Plato trolled us hard with Tha Atlantis story.
>almost all of Plato's work survived to our times
>the only exception being his dialogue on the Atlantis, whose end was lost forever
>>491043
Atlantis = Heaven
>>491327
Read the original story dumbass
>>491043
Plato is a hack.
t. Diogenes
>>491327
Aladdin is Chinese
>>493380
The story?
Atlantis is in Atlantic Ocean hence the name Atlantic. Its somewhere near USA or South American shores. Read more here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Antediluvian_World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_L._Donnelly
sea peoples
>>491043
He meant it's located on Lake Chad, which was navigable in those days.
That's probably where R1b comes from...
>>493410
forgot to mention
>"Atlantis is located beyond the Pillars of Hercules." - Plato
>The Pillars of Hercules was the phrase that was applied in Antiquity to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
>The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
>Atlantic Ocean
>Atlantic = Belongs to Atlantis
now you know where it is
>>493457
:Atlantic" comes from "Atlas". Atlantis is a fucking story with a moral, Plato was a philosopher not a historian. It's real as the road from Christ's parable about seeds.
>>493467
>Atlantic" comes from "Atlas".
>>491327
I don't know about the original story, but the Disney movie takes place in Xinjiang and Aladdin is Uighur Muslim
>>493383
No, the character in the story. Aladdin is "Chinese" in that he's whatever the fuck the author wants.
>>493471
>The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the "Sea of Atlas".
>>493379
Le ironic shitposter of le ancient times just like me on r9k eheheh
>>493517
Hi where are the serious disgussionds
t. you aka redditor
>>493516
>B. n. The Atlantic ocean; also fig. [For the 14th c. athlante, cf. F. atlante, Atlas, also inhabitant of the mythic Atlantis (an island placed by the Greeks in the far West).]
1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 53 Þe see of occean of athlant [oceanus Atlanticus]. a 1711 Ken Hymnotheo Wks. 1721 III. 331 Down on the Earth it in Atlanticks rain'd. 1865 Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. iv. 388 ‘Feelings’ or ‘phænomena of feeling’ is an indiscriminate Atlantic of a phrase.
>>493562
Nobody asked you
>>493571
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>>493578
Not even that guy, but the atlantic ocean refers to Atlas. Notice that the mountain range in Morocco is known as the Atlas mountains as well. The utter west was seen as 'the territory of Atlas' by the greeks
>>493788
Not him, but are you dim?
>>491327
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Islam_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people#Origins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin#Plot_summary
so we can agree that Atlantis was an island on a fault line in the Atlantic that got destroyed by plate boundary fuckery right?
I mean if you don't you don't belong on this board
>>493788
http://www.britannica.com/place/Atlantic-Ocean
I can throw in links as well.
>The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; English: Sea of Atlas)
Herodotus lived a century before Plato
>>493562
Atlantic means an inhabitant of Atlantis, in addition to the name of the ocean. Two separate, English words. What's wrong with that? Besides your faggotry?
>>493929
>not thar guy
>not him
just go to bed already you got BTFO no need to embrass yourself anymore
>>493457
Yes. Tartessos.
>>493540
Can someone please explain this t. name meme? It don't make no sense
>>494766
t. stands for "terveiset" which means "regards" in Finnish, it's an /int/ maymay
For example, when someone asks what does t. mean and another person replies to him with "t. newshit", the latter is implying that the former is new
>>494804
Thank you kind sir
>>491051
It was North and or South America
>>493421
>>494804
it's a ylilauta mene, 4ch's /int/ just adopted it
he wasnt trolling
>>491043
Tartessos was in clearly in SARDINIA the Roman and later greek writers clearly didn't get it.
>>491152
>China isn't real!
>>498050
elaborate
>>498107
Tarshish is the name the jews in the bible and Assyrians reffered to the land in the west known for its silver and fleet.
The only mention of the name Tharshish in the west is in an ancient documents written in the phoenician alphabet around the 9-8th century bc mentioning the name Tharshish even if Cross and other scholars tried translating it, there is not a widely accepted translation yet.
While archeologists searched for a great deal of time in Southern Spain for Tartessos or Tharshish they NEVER found it.
While in Sardinia a monumental civilization flourished during the bronze age and continued existing in the early iron age, during that time the Nuragics (Sardinian people) and Phoenician people met and:
"Recent researches (2010) have nevertheless demonstrated that the old idea of a Nuragic civilization collapsing upon the arrival of Phoenicians and their colonization of Sardinia, is completely outdated. Phoenicians started to arrive in Sardinia around the 9th century BC, in small number, and remained scattered along the coastline. This period was the heyday of Nuragic society and Phoenicians started to cooperate with the Nuragics that, in turn, continued to administer harbours and economic resources.[48]"
Tarshish was described as an island by Assyrians and Sardinia is full of very ancient cities and coastal settlements while there are none noticeable ones in the area were Tartessos is supposed to be in Spain.
Plus the Sardinian people produced an enormous quantity of bronze models of ships of different sizes and shapes, this only enforced the theory that Tarshish was located in Sardinia since Tharshish was known for its fleet.
Also the native Sardinian civilization reached its peak during the early iron age when it was mentioned in the bible and disappeared around 500 bc because of the Carthaginians who overtook much of the island, coincidentally that's the time when most early greek explorers stop mentioning it.
>>498212
The first statues in Europe in fact appeared in Sardinia around 1000-750 bc, the giants of monte Prama, this shows the dominant role that Sardinia had during that time in the western mediterrenean.
>>498235
This image shows the amount of oxhide ingots found in Sardinia to give you an idea of the role Sardinia had during the late bronze age and early iron age, Sardinian pottery can in fact be found since the bronze age in the eastern med and Sardinians had frequent contacts with the Levantine people since very ancient times.
In fact a recent discovery of melon seeds dating to 1300-1550 bc in some Nuragic wells leads us to believe that Sardinia was the first place in western Europe were melons were cultivated and during that time Sardinia could've gotten them only from north Africa or the Levant.
>>498212
fucking nice post, my friend
Meaning to the west of the Strait of Gibraltar, which of course means somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
>>491327
Aladdin is an arab story set in China, however most arab storytellers had never been to China so they thought it was pretty much like the Middle East.
