Saturday, January 28, 2012

REVIEW - Atlantis End of a World Birth of a Legend

It's hard to judge this - is it a serious review of the history surrounding this alleged civilization destroyed by a natural disaster, or a mammoth fairy tale.

The "facts" aren't many - a Greek mythology with "great wolves", "a half human, half beast Minotaur". and other fanciful creatures competing against human slaves while a bronze age civilization pranced around doing impersonations of Spartacus in and around Crete, in what we know as the Minoan Empire.

Specifically, the Greek writer Plato tells of the island of Thiera, destroyed by an ancient volcano in The Mediterranean.

It all sounds about as likely as Harry Potter.

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