AlamoVampire Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 (edited) Floor 5320: A docent giving a lecture: Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. In the story, Atlantis is described as a naval empire that ruled all Western parts of the known world, making it the literary counter-image of the Achaemenid Empire. After an ill-fated attempt to conquer "Ancient Athens," Atlantis falls out of favor with the deities and submerges into the Atlantic Ocean. Since Plato describes Athens as resembling his ideal state in the Republic, the Atlantis story is meant to bear witness to the superiority of his concept of a state. Despite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature. The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia. On the other hand, nineteenth-century amateur scholars misinterpreted Plato's narrative as historical tradition, most famously Ignatius L. Donnelly in his Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Plato's vague indications of the time of the events (more than 9,000 years before his time) and the alleged location of Atlantis ("beyond the Pillars of Hercules") gave rise to much pseudoscientificspeculation. As a consequence, Atlantis has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations and continues to inspire contemporary fiction, from comic books to films. While present-day philologists and classicistsagree on the story's fictional nature, there is still debate on what served as its inspiration. Plato is known to have freely borrowed some of his allegories and metaphors from older traditions, as he did with the story of Gyges. This led a number of scholars to suggest possible inspiration of Atlantis from Egyptian records of the Thera eruption, the Sea Peoples invasion, or the Trojan War. Others have rejected this chain of tradition as implausible and insist that Plato created an entirely fictional account, drawing loose inspiration from contemporary events such as the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC or the destruction of Helikein 373 BC. 210407132024 new page 210507132024 Edited July 14 by AlamoVampire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5321: The Atlantis. https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/society/11/02/2012/5703f32b9a7947ac81a64cea?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5322: a sign: speculation is not evidence 033607142024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 (edited) Floor 5323: A documentary video evidence by the living witnesses. Spoiler Edited July 14 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ColdJ Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5325: Another Food Court. You sit by the fountain and enjoy a meal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5326: a list of fictional beings that appear to be trying to haunt from their fiction books 094907142024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5327: Med Techs with a straight jacket, heading up to the next floor, ready to catch the escaped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5328: a beautiful, long, silky, shimmering, and elegant blue dress with matching blue heels await a fair maiden to claim them. 100407142024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5329: The med techs having caught the escaped are heading for the next floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 14 Share Posted July 14 Floor 5330: a soft bunny munching away on some fresh greens 102907142024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5331: Orange, yellow and purple greens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kerbiloid Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5333: Triple three and a pentagram on the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5334: A sign that says "beware the Palindrome on the next floor". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5335: a fancy palindrome 031207152024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5336: A palin, landed on the palindrome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ColdJ Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5338: A kitchen, they get you to wash the dishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5339: Qapla'! 052907152024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 (edited) Floor 5340: The kitchen on Voyager. They get you to do the dishes. Edited July 15 by ColdJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 (edited) Floor 5341: All paths lead somewhere. Where that is can be found if you follow the path. 063207152024 Edited July 15 by AlamoVampire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5342: A collection of parasites, gathered from the raw meat eaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5343: Maggots and Meal Worms, mmm yummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 15 Share Posted July 15 Floor 5344: Echinococcuses are showing focuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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