A person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance. Carved into the sandstone hill by the Nabataeans in the second century A. All rights reserved. Possibly Based on Real Events? Petra, Jordan A person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance.
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Atlantis sat 50 stades from the sea d , connected by a canal of that length which was feet wide and feet deep.
The city itself was made of rings of land and sea as we saw above. First, before we go saying how big everything is reported to have been, we need to work out how big a stade is. A Greek stade is feet or meters. Greek Ptolemaic-Attic — ft or meters. Egyptian-Phoenician — ft or meters.
Therefore we can suggest that the distance between Atlantis and the sea 50 stades was either 5. In Egyptian stades this would be:. In addition, the outer city was surrounded by a wall which was 50 stades from the outer ring of sea all around the city in a circle.
Between the circle and the wall were densely packed houses for common folk. Therefore it can be calculated that the diameter of the full city of Atlantis was stades.
This is the central island plus two breadths of each circle including the outer settlement area up to the wall on each side. This means, according to Critias, that Atlantis was a sizeable city. This width means it was roughly the same size as Madrid though no doubt with a smaller population due to a lack of high rises. The buildings were made with mixed stone, so were of many colors. This was supposedly a time of a war between Athens and Atlantis. However, the book ends with Zeus preparing to deliver divine retribution on Atlantis.
The reason, according to Plato for this punishment was degeneration. This degeneration came from mixing divine blood with mortal Earth blood. To Plato this meant losing a divine adherence to laws and virtues. Instead more base motives took over. However, earlier in the Timaeus 25c-d , Critias states that Atlantis fell after its failed attempt to enslave all those who lived within the straight ie.
We do know, however, the shape of the retribution. Critias gives the story in more depth in Timaeus 25d and less detail in Critias e — a. The whole destruction of Atlantis happened over night. First there were violent earthquakes and floods. Then the people of the city disappeared into the earth and the city sank into the sea. Finally mud swept over the city making the waters unpassable as they were too shallow. This empire was called Atlantis, and it ruled over several other islands and parts of the continents of Africa and Europe.
Atlantis was arranged in concentric rings of alternating water and land. The soil was rich, said Critias, the engineers technically accomplished, the architecture extravagant with baths, harbor installations, and barracks. The central plain outside the city had canals and a magnificent irrigation system. Atlantis had kings and a civil administration, as well as an organized military.
Their rituals matched Athens for bull-baiting, sacrifice, and prayer. But then it waged an unprovoked imperialistic war on the remainder of Asia and Europe. When Atlantis attacked, Athens showed its excellence as the leader of the Greeks, the much smaller city-state the only power to stand against Atlantis. Alone, Athens triumphed over the invading Atlantean forces, defeating the enemy, preventing the free from being enslaved, and freeing those who had been enslaved.
After the battle, there were violent earthquakes and floods, and Atlantis sank into the sea, and all the Athenian warriors were swallowed up by the earth.
The Atlantis story is clearly a parable: Plato's myth is of two cities which compete with each other, not on legal grounds but rather cultural and political confrontation and ultimately war. A small but just city an Ur-Athens triumphs over a mighty aggressor Atlantis.
The story also features a cultural war between wealth and modesty, between a maritime and an agrarian society, and between an engineering science and a spiritual force. Atlantis as a concentric-ringed island in the Atlantic which sank under the sea is almost certainly a fiction based on some ancient political realities.
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