posted on Apr, 20 2021 @ 09:24 AM
a reply to:
LSU2018
This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable and there was an island situated in front of the straits
which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles.
The island was larger than Libya and Asia put together and was the way to other islands and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite
continent which surrounded the true ocean.
For this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour having a narrow entrance but that other is a real sea and the surrounding land
may be most truly called a boundless continent.
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others and over parts of the
continent and furthermore the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt and of Europe as far as
Tyrrhenia.
This vast power gathered into one endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits and then,
Solon your country shone forth in the excellence of her virtue and strength among all mankind.
She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill and was the leader of the Hellenes And when the rest fell off from her being compelled to stand
alone after having undergone the very extremity of danger she defeated and triumphed over the invaders and preserved from slavery those who were not
yet subjugated and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.
But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the
earth and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea for which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and
impenetrable because there is a shoal of mud in the way and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.