{"id":30963,"date":"2016-08-23T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=30963"},"modified":"2021-12-15T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:42:41","slug":"archive-2057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2057\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive 2057"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Translated from French<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PLATO revisited : what he precisely said about Atlantis By Philippe POTEL-BELNER,<a href=\"mailto:info@langue-et-histoire.com\">\u00a0<\/a>info@langue-et-histoire.com<a href=\"mailto:info@langue-et-histoire.com\">\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0www.langue-et-histoire.com\u00a0 Plato, in Tim\u00e9e and Critias dialogs, gave us many indications about Atlantis.Three of them must be examined with a great attention:<\/p>\n<p>1-The land inhabited by the Atlants is <em>h\u00ea n\u00easos<\/em>. The general meaning of\u00a0<em>n\u00easos <\/em>is island, but for thegreek geographers a <em>n\u00easos <\/em>is an area delimited by large rivers and constituting a continent (see STRABO&#8217;s writings).<\/p>\n<p>2-The sea is called by Plato <em>Atlantik\u00ea thalassa<\/em>. For the Greeks, the\u00a0<em>\u00a0Atlantik\u00ea thalassa <\/em>was the name of the ocean around the large continent which included Europe, Asia and Africa. It was not only our \u201cAtlanticOcean\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>3-Atlantis is beyond the <em>\u00a0Heraklion st\u00ealai<\/em>. <em>st\u00ealai <\/em>is generally used for the Gibraltar Strait, but another strait was probably used at a very old\u00a0period: the Suez Channel is the remains of an old passage, and the <em>Heraklion St\u00ealai\u00a0 <\/em>can be the Bab &#8211; El Mandeb Strait (Aden).From this new lecture of Platon, and from many others arguments exposed in my book\u00a0 <em>la Premi\u00e8re\u00a0Histoire de l&#8217;Humanit\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(June 2012, 113 pages, not any editor found yet), I am convinced that PLATO referred to a very ancient people, living in the long plain of the western coast of India. This first civilization in the world has survived in his ethnic name the<\/p>\n<p>, that means, like the name of\u00a0the Gaulish druids, Dravidians<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthose who know the links\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(between the things, between <em>men<\/em> and <em>gods<\/em>, between the stars each other, between the words, those who know the rays, the beams: a ray is a link between two things). Our Science is the heiress of this conception of the world: <em>\u00a0science<\/em><\/p>\n<p>is the present participle of the sanskrit verb<\/p>\n<p><em>SI\u00a0=<\/em> to bind &gt; <em>\u00a0siant\u00ee <\/em>= binding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated from French PLATO revisited : what he precisely said about Atlantis By Philippe POTEL-BELNER,\u00a0info@langue-et-histoire.com\u00a0,\u00a0www.langue-et-histoire.com\u00a0 Plato, in Tim\u00e9e and Critias dialogs, gave us many indications about Atlantis.Three of them must be examined with a great attention: 1-The land inhabited by the Atlants is h\u00ea n\u00easos. The general meaning of\u00a0n\u00easos is island, but for thegreek geographers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963","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=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52430,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30963\/revisions\/52430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}