{"id":1993,"date":"2010-05-29T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/geography-of-atlantis\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:50:57","slug":"geography-of-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/geography-of-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong>G<\/strong><strong>eography of <\/strong><strong>A<\/strong><strong>tlantis <\/strong>is discussed in detail by Plato, who, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bacon-edward\/\">Bacon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/galanopoulos-angelos\/\">Galanopoulos<\/a>, seemed to imply<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">263<\/a>.39]<\/sup> that it consisted of <strong>two<\/strong> principal islands located beyond the Pillars of Heracles.<\/p>\n<p>How they arrived at this conclusion is difficult to understand when you read <em>Timaeus<\/em> 25a-b,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvellous 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 Europe as far as Tuscany.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (Bury)<\/p>\n<p>To me, it seems clear from this that the \u2018confederation\u2019 ruled over several islands as well as portions of nearby continental mainlands<b> <\/b>of Europe (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/italy-n\/\">Italy<\/a>) and Africa (most likely centred on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a>). These are the only territories unambiguously named as Atlantean by Plato (Tim. 25a-b &amp; Crit.114c).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-bill\/\">Egerton Sykes<\/a> thought that the Tuatha d\u00e9 Danaan were refugees from Atlantis, an idea he expressed in his 1949 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly\u2019<\/a><a href=\"#DonnellyIL\">s<\/a> <em>Atlantis.<\/em> Sykes was convinced that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/murias\/\">Murias<\/a>, one of the four legendary cities of the d\u00e9 Danann, had been located in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bimini-roadwall\/\">Bimini<\/a>. This highly speculative idea failed to bear fruit, as have all efforts to identify the location of the other three cities, Falias, Finias and Gorias. But this is pure speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geography of Atlantis is discussed in detail by Plato, who, according to Bacon and Galanopoulos, seemed to imply[263.39] that it consisted of two principal islands located beyond the Pillars of Heracles. How they arrived at this conclusion is difficult to understand when you read Timaeus 25a-b, \u201cNow in this island of Atlantis there existed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,691,265,3068,108,2957,48,233],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angelos-galanopoulos","tag-edward-bacon","tag-egerton-sykes","tag-geography","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-italy","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69123,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/69123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}