Lost Worlds
Greece and Rome: Lost worlds
Lost Worlds pages that draw on Greece and Rome, each with the sources shown. Start with Atlantis, Helike, Tartarus.
Places · Greece and RomeAtlantisPlato says a great island empire sank in a single day and night, and then his unfinished dialogue stops mid-sentence just as Zeus starts to speak. No Greek writer before him mentions Atlantis. So was it a warning parable, a memory of a real disaster, or something else? The sources point several ways.Places · Greece and RomeHelikeOne winter night in 373 BCE, a real Greek city and its harbor vanished beneath the sea. Roman tourists reportedly peered down at the drowned ruins, and a bronze Poseidon was said to snag fishermen's nets. Plato wrote about sunken Atlantis soon after. Where was Helike finally found, and why does it matter?Places · Greece and RomeTartarusHesiod measured the Greek prison for defeated gods with a falling bronze anvil: nine days from sky to earth, nine more to reach it. Centuries later, 2 Peter used the same word for where fallen angels are chained. Why would a Greek pit show up in the New Testament? The page follows the trail.
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