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No. Plato's Atlantis is mentioned as being past the pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic
by forgotTheLast 2y ago
No. Plato's Atlantis is mentioned as being past the pillars of Hercules in the Atlantic
- Detrytus 2y agoPillars of Hercules name itself is ambiguous, one of the theories is that Plato referred to a pair of Greek islands, not Gibraltar. That would place Atlantis somewhere in the Mediterrain Sea.
- card_zero 2y agoThe source has Ἡρακλέους στήλας. Wiktionary tells me that's more like blocks of Heracles, or slabs or monuments. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0179%3Atext%3DTim.%3Asection%3D24e https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... (press "focus" to swap language) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B7 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B... It's kind of completely unambiguous though, given all the details: > from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, > the ocean there was at that time navigable; > in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' The location is clearly out in the unnavigable Atlantic, and the [whatever] of Heracles form a mouth.