There are two points about Atlantis which ought to be borne in mind;
1. Plato was not a historian, he was a philosopher - so was Socrates if you accept that the whole story came from him. The purpose of these writings was to make people think and to express philosophical ideas, and to claim them as proof of the existence of Atlantis is exactly parallel to accepting that swans are the special servants of the god Apollo, which Plato also quotes Socrates as saying.
2. A Phoenician explorer went to South Africa and a Greek seems to have got as far as Jutland, but until the Ptolemies opened a sea route to India using the monsoon there was no commerce by sea over long open oceans; the risks, in the available ships, were just too great. It is conceivable that a ship driven far off course by storms might have reached the new world, but commerce with the new world was out of the question in terms of naval technology.
>>> Paul Budd <[log in to unmask]> 02/23 8:30 AM >>>
> I'm sending this question because I have recently been told about a book
> "The God-Kings and the Titans" by James Bailey
Unfortunately archaeology attracts these loonies like flies to a
dungheap. There was hardly any bronze produced in the Bronze Age by the
standards of modern metallurgy. The tin deposits of the Cornubian
Variscan alone are world class and produced thousands and thousands of
tonnes up until the 1990s. In one year alone (1871) Cornwall and Devon
alone produced 10,900 tons of tin, half of the world's supply and
probably 10,000 times more than all of the tin in all of the Bronze Age
artefacts ever recovered in Europe.
When people start talking about Atlantis, the best thing to do is lock
them up in a padded cell.
Paul.
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