Andrew Schulz

Whereas like some later Greek cultures, it might be like Medusa or something like that.

For them, it was the Minotaur, the bull-headed man or just a bull's head.

So...

What's really interesting is when Plato is talking about the city of Athens crushing Atlantis, and then Atlantis gets destroyed in this huge cataclysm, this big wave, whatever, whatever.

One of the things that's analogous to that, and that is kind of in the back of the Athenian mind, their mythology, is this

is this myth of Theseus or Theseus and the Minotaur.

But the Athenians may not even know who the Minoans ever were because this is such an ancient civilization that's been buried for so long and in ruins.

But one of their core mythologies is Theseus, this Athenian, rising up and going off to this distant land and killing the Minotaur, right?

But then along with that, you have Athens rising up and going and killing Atlantis, okay?

Athens was controlled by the Mycenaeans who then swept into the Minoan area.

So Athens during the Bronze Age was a Mycenaean city who went into the land of the Minotaur and conquered them.

And one of the modern comparisons that you get for Atlantis that a lot of people will make is some people will go, well, you know, I don't think that Atlantis had, like,

space-age technology that's more advanced than us, but I think that they were probably maybe like on par with the Roman Empire.

That's what, you know, but it's like a global Roman Empire.

Well, after the Minoans fell, the only civilization that would ever reach the illustrious level of the Minoans again was the Roman Empire some thousand or fifteen, sixteen hundred years later.

And so what I think that

plato is drawing on is this story that sits somewhere deep in the subconsciousness of the greek world of the greatest richest empire that the ancient world ever saw far more well like the average person far more wealthy than an egyptian they didn't have the same kind of huge temples whatever whatever but the but the way of life far superior to to an egyptian or anybody else these guys controlled all the trade routes of the mediterranean especially of the greek world

And then the fourth largest volcanic eruption in world history basically brought down the end of their civilization.

In fact, I ran the numbers on it.

I might get the categorization of the energy expelled, but the bombs that we dropped on Japan can be measured as 15 kilotons of energy that was expelled from the bomb.