The Atlantis We Are Looking For
When one mentions the lost continent of Atlantis, one thinks of
Plato's "Dialogues".
However, Plato's work was not the only one to point to a 'lost continent'. There
are legends of other old civilizations that mention lost worlds which
disappeared into the waters, as a result of volcanic eruptions, floods, and
earthquakes. Today people fight over the existence of Atlantis continent,
but they all take into account one story, that is Plato's. While we do expose
the theories and the ongoing research on this sunk land, we try to bind
together everything we have to create The Atlantis, the base for
"Dialogues", the base for Kircher's and Piri Reis's map, the course
of the ancient legends. The result might not be called "Atlantis",
but a variation of it. There are so many researchers that claim to have
discovered "the lost continent", that any new found land can be a
possible Atlantis. Some even claim that Atlantis has already been found in the
Aegean Sea, on the Island of Santorini. Maybe Atlantis is some kind of faerie
tale, but there must be something lost out there, even if its name is not
Atlantis, even if it is not in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Atlantis after all?
The old Greek scholars cast a completely different light on the story. After
years and years of believing just because funny evidence claims the existence
of Plato's Atlantis, I reached a point where I ask myself: But did it really
exist, as Plato said?
I pointed my finger to the Azores, I pointed it to Santorini, and now I am
pointing to nothing, because I don't know what to say. I might as well reach
the conclusion that Atlantis continent is, after all, Plato's story, based on
some real events, but adapted.
