reply to post by Geticus
The Pillars of Hercules could be found in many temples which were dedicated to him....
Plato says in Critias,
Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which
was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles
and all who dwelt within them
Does this mean that the Pillars were some kind of headland? A natural barrier between one people and another?
He then goes on to say,
...the combatants on he other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and
Asia...
Could an island that big existed in the Mediterranean?
Not a chance!
The only place an island that size could exist is outside of the Mediterranean.
The confusion over river and ocean is not that hard to explain.The ancient belief was that,beyond the lands of the then known world,was a great river
and it encircled all the land.They called it the ocean.
Knowing that the Greeks knew land existed to the east and that land existed to the north,and knowing that a huge island couldn't have existed in the
Med Sea,where are the Pillars of Hercules?
At the Rock of Gibralter?
5. Pindar, again seid that the Columns of Hercules where in the country of Hyperboreans, in the Istrian country, the extreme limit of navigation.
The Hyperboreans were a mythical people to the Greeks.Also,the land of Thrace was known to the Athenians as its lie north east and their colonies
stretched into the Black Sea part of which is bordered by Thrace.
10. According to Pliny, upstrim from the island Gadira navigation was not possible. There the stone walls were so close that one single tree could
hinder with it's branches the passing of vessels.
The only Gadiera i know of lies in southwestern Spain,its known today as Cadiz,its not far from Gibralter.
[edit on 29-10-2007 by jakyll]