Atlantis History.com: G. THE CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS

Descendants of Legendary Atlantis
by
Constantin Benetatos

Are Northern Europeans more pure descendants
of the Atlanteans than their Mediterranean counterparts?

G. THE CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS.

IT WOULD BE AN UNJUST AND FUTILE ATTEMPT TO TRY TO DESCRIBE THE LOST CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS WHEN THE PHILOSOPHER PLATO HIMSELF DESCRIBED IT FOR US IN HIS DIALOGUES "TIMEUS AND CRITIAS". CRITIAS TELLS US HOW THIS INFORMATION CAME TO HIM FROM HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER " DROPIDES". "DROPIDES" RECEIVED THIS MANUSCRIPT FROM THE ATHENIAN STATESMAN AND LAWGIVER "SOLON". SOLON IN TURN OBTAINED THIS INFORMATION FROM THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS OF SAIS WHEN HE TRAVELED THERE. THE EGYPTIAN PRIESTS SCOLDED HIM ABOUT THE IGNORANCE OF THE HELLENES REGARDING THEIR PAST. "YOUR CIVILIZATION IS OLDER THAN OURS" SOLON WAS TOLD, "BUT YOU ARE JUST CHILDREN WHEN KNOWING YOUR PAST". THE PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION OF THE ATHENIANS IN ALL PROBABILITY WAS PART OF AND FORMED OUT OF THE LEGENDARY ATLANTIS. THE POPULATION OF ATLANTIS, BASED ON THE (SOMEWHAT EXAGGERATED) SIZE OF THEIR ARMED FORCES AS DESCRIBED BY CRITIAS, WAS BETWEEN SIX TO TEN MILLION PEOPLE - A VERY LARGE NUMBER INDEED. IN A POPULATION OF THIS SIZE, ONE WILL FIND A RULING CLASS, (PROBABLY INCLUDING THE RELIGIOUS SECTOR), CRAFTSMEN, ARTISANS, LABORERS, AND OF COURSE, THE ONES WHO CULTIVATE THE EARTH.


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