Did Atlantis Sink to the Bottom of the Sea? | Atlantis FYI It's taken for granted that Atlantis sunk to the bottom of the sea, after all, isn't that the whole point of the story?

One of the most iconic elements of the Atlantis story is the idea that it sank to the bottom of the sea. That's the next topic in my Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth series. #atlantis #plato

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Was Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean? | Atlantis FYI Every modern translation renders the body of water that Atlantis was located in as in the Atlantic Ocean, are they really all wrong?

Was Atlantis located in the Atlantic ocean? The next installment in my Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth series tackles on the most infamous mistranslation in all of Atlantis studies. #atlantis #plato #atlanticocean #atlanticsea

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Was Atlantis Larger than Libya and Asia Combined? | Atlantis FYI Because Plato says that Atlantis was larger than Libya and Asia combined people often assume that Atlantis must have been a vast continent, but is that really the case?

Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth including that it was larger than Libya and Asia combined. #atlantis #plato

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Was Atlantis Located Beyond the Pillars of Hercules? Plato places Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Hercules, the modern Strait of Gibraltar, but if you look a little deeper, it's not at all clear what the location he's referring to actually is.

Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth including that it was located beyond the Pillars of Hercules. #atlantis #plato #pillarsofhercules

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Was Atlantis An Island? | Atlantis FYI Everyone knows Atlantis is an island, Plato even calls it an island. Is it possible that everyone is wrong?

The latest in my Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth series, this time I'm dealing with the myth that Atlantis was an island. #atlantis

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Was Atlantis Called Atlantis? | Atlantis FYI Do we know what the denziens of Atlantis called their homeland?

Another post in my Everything You Know About Atlantis is a Myth series, this one is about the name Atlantis itself. Where does the name Atlantis come from and if the story of Atlantis comes from Egypt, why is that name nowhere found in Egypt? #atlantis #plato

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Was Atlantis the Mother Civilization of the Ancient World? No, Plato's Atlantis was not the mother civilization of the ancient world, that's Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis which has almost nothing to do with Plato's Atlantis.

New post is the next installment in the series Everything You Know About Atlantis Is A Myth. This time I tackle the oft encountered idea that Atlantis was the mother civilization of the ancient world. #atlantis #pyramid #plato

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Did Atlantis Have Pyramids? | Atlantis FYI While many hypothetical reconstructions of Atlantis feature pyramids, Atlantis did not actually contain any pyramids.

My latest is the first in a series called Everything You Know About Atlantis Is A Myth. Often when depicting Atlantis people will include pyramids in the recreation, but did Atlantis actually have pyramids? #atlantis #pyramid #plato

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Mental gymnastics meme. Top panel title: Platonic Seventh Letter Mental Gymnastics Top panel content: A person walking across a gymnastics mat with the words “Plato wrote the seventh letter” over them Bottom panel title: Non-Platonic Seventh Letter Mental Gymnastics Bottom panel content: a person doing an increasingly difficult series of gymnastics apparatus, with various parameters laid out by Gilbert Ryle for the person who wrote it: “Whoever wrote it would have had to keep it private,” “The author knew the contents of Laws,” “And they knew a lot about the situation in Sicily,” “Definitely not Plato though.”

Also, the meme I made for this post is a banger.

On the Authenticity of Plato's Letters | Atlantis FYI Other then the Seventh, and occasionally a few others, Plato's Letters are ignored by scholars as later additions to the corpus by authors unknown. Why are these works thought to be spurious, and is i...

My most recent post concerns Plato’s Letters, the bastard child of the Platonic corpus, and why everyone thinks some or all of the Letters are forgeries. Shockingly, I disagree with that take. The Letters, if given a chance, reveal themselves to be entirely Platonic.

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The process for posting I have now involves writing the posts in scrivener, then compiling to the site content folder and previewing it/editing it locally before pushing to github, where it gets pushed out to Netlify. Works pretty well so far.

Eleventy is a simpler static site generator Eleventy is a simpler static site generator.

When I first created this blog, for reasons not worth going over now, I made it with a React front-end and Wordpress backend. This proved to be a painful decision, so I recently recreated the site using 11ty, which has been great.

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How Unfinished is Critias? | Atlantis FYI That Critias is unfinished is taken for granted. The dialogue abruptly ends, just as Zeus is about to speak to the collected group of gods. But how unfinished is Critias? How much of the story is left...

More recently I wrote a post asking How Unfinished is Critias? Critias is the second part of the Timaeus-Critias duology and ends just as Zeus is about to pass judgment. How much of the story was left to tell? Did Plato leave Critias unfinished on purpose?

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Timaeus and The Republic | Atlantis FYI Is Timaeus a continuation of the discussion from The Republic?

This post is from a few years back. It’s a response to a Twitter thread from @flintdibble.bsky.social about the relationship between Republic and Timaeus.

Short version: Timaeus is definitely not a sequel to Republic.

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About | Atlantis FYI Sources, Analysis, and Hot Takes concerning Platos Atlantis.

Atlantis.FYI is a blog about Plato's Atlantis. I first launched the site back in spring 2020 and then got too distracted by research to keep blogging. Four years of research later and I've got some blog posts in me again.

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