| Public Domain/Smithsonian American Art Museum.Ītlantis, however, was destroyed by the gods and it sank beneath the ocean along with its inhabitants. Atlantis’ rituals also matched Athens’ “for bull-baiting, sacrifice, and prayer.” (Gill, 2018) Peter Minchell, Destruction of Atlantis, ca. But it’s not just the irrigation system, architecture, and luxuries that made Atlantis such an envious address it was also its rulers. “The soil was rich the engineers technically accomplished, and architecture extravagant with baths, harbor installations, and barracks,” Gill (2018) writes in the article Atlantis as It Was Told in Plato’s Socratic Dialogues. Levy (2007:20) notes that the city of Atlantis was “a model ancient metropolis appointed with every marvel that Bronze Age civilization could offer.
Atlantis was arranged in concentric circles of alternating water and land – and that was just the beginning of its wonders. The island of Atlantis and its city of the same name is described in some detail by Plato in Critias.
In section 25a and 25b of Timæus: “In there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent and, moreover, of the lands here within the Straits they ruled over Libya as far as Egypt, and over Europes as far as Tuscany.” Plato has been described as “one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.” About his work, it has been stated that “educated readers of nearly every period have in some way been influenced by him.”Īmongst Plato’s most well-known works are, probably, The Republic (circa 375 BCE), Timæus (circa 370 BCE), and Critias (circa 360 BCE) – the Socratic dialogues in which descriptions of Atlantis and its downfall and destruction can be found.Ī white Carrara marble bust of Plato from the workshop of François du Quesnoy, circa 1635. 429–347 BCE) is the first to write about the island of Atlantis and give a detailed description of the island in his works. Unusually for mythology, we can pinpoint the start of the Atlantis story – or at least, pinpoint the moment when the Atlantis story “went mainstream.” The Greek philosopher Plato (c. The Beginning of Atlantis: Plato and His Works Atlantis, the lost city of the Ancients, at the height of its powers in the Stargate Atlantis episode ‘Rising’ (S1, Ep1). In this article, I’m going to have a look at the original Atlantis myth by Plato, before moving on to other interpretations of it, and finally looking at the ways in which Stargate SG-1 makes use of the Atlantis myth. It’s then little wonder that Atlantis – which has become part of pop culture – was also utilized in the overall storyline. Stargate SG-1 loved using different Earth mythologies and folklore to inform the series’ own, internal mythology of interplanetary travel, the Asgard, the Goa’uld, the Ori, etc. From Plato to pseudohistory, how the mythical Lost City of Atlantis went from ancient history to Stargate’s Ancient city-ship.
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