Journeys begin here.

The legend of Atlantis was brought from Egypt to Athens by the Greek statesman Solon based on his meeting circa 600 BCE with Sonchis of Sais, an Egyptian priest and keeper of the Sacred Registers at Sais. Solon passed a written record of this meeting to his relative Dropides, who passed it in turn to his son Critias the Elder, who passed it in turn to his grandson Critias the Younger, who presented it from memory at Socrates’ symposium circa 400 BCE. As a student of Socrates, Plato was likely to have attended this symposium, about which he later wrote in great narrative detail in his works Timaeus and Critias.

A Scientific Analysis of Plato’s Atlantis

The Science: An understanding of the frequency of major bolide strikes is only just emerging. Within that universe of discourse, however, there is little or no controversy. Threat objects are quite numerous, and once in a while they strike Earth.

The Liberal Arts: This non-controversial subject in science has not yet been taken up by classicists, most of whom are far too narrowly educated to connect Plato’s Atlantis to the true nature of the events therein described. The institutions they work for are far too heavily invested in its treatment as a fictional allegory to entertain any question as to its historicity. Connecting Plato’s account to actual places and events would upend much of their published narrative and established authority on this and other classics from antiquity over which they preside. They don’t want to stray from their grant specifications and they don’t want to lose control of their narrative on ancient literature to profit centers covering scientific disciplines.

The Fix: Bypass conventional wisdom, disregard profit centers, ignore the endlessly derivative Hollywood stereotypes and cut to the chase. Proceed from the source directly to the science of Plato’s Atlantis.