Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis Athens

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis Athens

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis Athens

Atlantis in Decline

Atlantis

Sais

Athens

Solon (very approx. 640 BC to

560 BC)

Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

Plato (approx. 424/3 BC to

348/7 BC)

Plato (approx. 424/3 BC to

348/7 BC)

The unfinished trilogy: Timaeus: Critias’ Atlantis summary + Timaeus’ discourse on cosmology Critias: the full story of Atlantis and Athens – breaks off before the great war (approx 20% of planned length?) Hermocrates: uncertain content (not written)

Ignatius Donnelly

(1831-1901)

Athanasius Kircher

(1602-80)

Ignatius Donnelly

(1831-1901)

Map by Guillaume Sanson (1669)

Map by Guillaume Sanson (1669)

Map by Guillaume Sanson (1669)

The Europe-Asia-Africa landmass is

surrounded by Ocean.

Ocean is surrounded by a larger landmass:

‘the opposite continent’ (Timaeus

24e-25a).

That outer continent is to our own as Ocean (the ‘real’ sea) is to the Mediterranean.

The world in Plato’s Atlantis story

Pages from the

1570 edition of

Plato’s works by Johannes Serranus (Jean de Serres)

Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702)

Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales

(1741-1816)

Delisle de Sales’ map of the primitive world, showing Plato’s Atlantis in the western Mediterranean

Delisle de Sales’ map of the primitive world, showing Plato’s Atlantis in the western Mediterranean

K.G. Zschaetzsch, Origin and History of the Arian Race (1920)

K.G. Zschaetzsch, Origin and History of the Arian Race (1920)

K.G. Zschaetzsch, Atlantis: original

homeland of the Arians (1922)

H. Wieland, Atlantis, Edda and Bible: 200 millennia of German World Culture and

the mystery of Holy Scripture (1925)

A. Herrmann, Our Ancestors and Atlantis

(1934)

J. Spanuth, Atlantis: homeland, Reich and

destiny of the Germans (1982)