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Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club to historymemes@piefed.social
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the hypothesis that tickles my brain the best is that it’s just severe generational trauma from when the sealevel rose and flooded doggerland
Like, imagine if the netherlands gradually started being swallowed by the ocean and all of europe had to adjust to the loss of some of the most productive farmland on the continent. It would suck so hard.
“I remember my great-grandfather talking about buying tomatoes for 4€/kg in the winter, maybe one day you kids will get to know what they taste like..”
The real atlantis mystery is where is miniminutemans video on it?
it got swallowed by the ocean 😔
Everyone knows the real Atlantis moved to the Pegasus Galaxy.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 days ago Everyone knows that Atlantis was a spaceship that left this world (and galaxy) for another long ago.
No it’s in San Francisco last I heard
Parked right alongside the Red October
sj_zero 2 days ago federation: postedIt was the minoans all along?
IIRC that eruption did sink a major minoan city that was near the volcano. The minoan civilization was already mythical to the classical Greeks, and neither them nor modern scientists know/knew how to read the minoan script.
The problem with Thera being Atlantis is that both Herodotus (who lived and wrote some decades before Plato was born) and other ancient writers mentions the island, but they don’t mention anything about it being connected to the myth of Atlantis. Which is something you would have expected especially Herodotus to have mentioned if that was the general belief at the time.
Maybe Plato’s ideas were just different from the mainstream. Atlantis in Plato’s writing was part of an allegorical narrative, anyway, and it’s not like it’s unheard of for port cities to sink or otherwise be destroyed by water.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Atlantis was no more real than Hogwarts. It was made up in order to serve the story he was telling.