Since Minoan culture of Crete was at war with the Mycenean culture of mainland Greece, and was in many way superior to the Myceneans, many historians believe that Crete is actually the Atlantis of legend. The fact that Minoan culture was utterly destroyed by a tidal wave caused by the Theran Eruption, obviosuly help validating this theory.Wissenschaft wrote...
EmperorSahlertz wrote...
The ancient Greeks remembered sinking Atlantis too...eluvianix wrote...
I would agree, but the Tevinters clearly remember it too, since they sunk the damn thing.EmperorSahlertz wrote...
Arlathan could also just have been a myth and never have actually existed.
Actually, the only mention of Atlantis is from Plato. Its only during latter generations that people start to believe that Atlantis was real. In fact, Plato used several fables in his dialgoues and its quite likely that Atlantis is just a made up story ment to illustrate his ideal city state.
But yes, Atlantis is in itself purely fiction, which Aralthan MAY also be. I was trying to point out, that just because the Elves have stories about Arlathan does not make it true.
Arlthan was sunk beneath the earth not the sea. OBVIOUSLY Arlathan takes a bit of inspiration from Atlantis, but that doesn't make it a rip-off, and now you have just validated my claim, that you don't really understand the term rip-off.Rotward wrote...
No, any city from an ancient but highly successful civilization that sinks in a single day is atlantis. This remains true until we get more information. Any conclusions drawn from this post are based off of essentially no info, and are pure speculation.
That said, I've yet to encounter a fantasy city that rises from underwater which doesn't borrow heavily from the legend of atlantis.
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