The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis in his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, around 360 BC.
According to MacGillivray, Atlantis was a city founded by Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, and was designed with concentric rings of water and land.
Giorgio continues his investigation on the Greek island of Santorini.
Matias began by explaining the origin of the word trauma, which comes from the Greek word "trauma," meaning wound.
Britannica gives tentative identifications for six of the Sea Peoples: the Ekwesh as Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans), the Teresh as Tyrrhenians, "ancestors of the Etruscans," the Luka, the Sherden, the Shekelesh and the Peleset.
Associated with ancient Aegean peoples, possibly originating from the Greek mainland or islands.
In Britannica's account they "perhaps came from Crete and were the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples to settle permanently in Palestine." Their five cities were Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gath and Ekron, and from the name Philistia the Greeks later called the whole country Palestine.
According to Jon, the story of Atlantis symbolized the state of Egyptian versus Greek societies, rather than describing an actual event or location.
According to Matt, the tale begins with Solon, a Greek statesman who visited Egypt.
During his visit, Solon allegedly learned about ancient civilizations from an Egyptian elder priest named Sanus, who claimed that the Greeks only remembered one great flood but that there had been many.
First, he suggested that it served as a contrast between Greek democracy and Egyptian imperialism.
Elementals derive from ancient Greek and Roman ideas of the four classical elements, which were thought to constitute all matter.
Biglino also discusses the Greek translation of the Bible, where specific terminology suggests an increasing sound upon the arrival of Yahweh's "kavod," further solidifying his argument that these descriptions refer to technological vehicles.
In 2015, a Greek shipwreck off the coast of Sicily yielded 29 ingots made of a copper-zinc alloy.
From Plato’s description we know Solon and the priests of Egypt were not familiar with it, although they knew it “sparkled like fire.” In ancient Greek, the language of Solon, the word chalkos, which is the basis of the word orichalcum, applied to all metals, therefore orichalcum literally meant “gold metal.”
Memories of the orichalcum of Atlantis appeared 600 years before Plato’s time in the works of the Greek poet Homer, who mentions it as a golden metal in the hymn of Aphrodite.
Hesiod, another pre-Plato Greek poet (eighth to seventh century B.C.), also refers to it.
The Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets all owe their existence to the Phoenicians, as their convenient and easily adapted alphabet was spread around the Mediterranean through their trading empire.
Strabo, the Greek geographer writing in the 1st century BC, echoed Herodotus' view.
Contrary to popular belief, no significant genetic shifts were detected in the Egyptian population during 1,300 years of foreign rule, including the Greek, Roman, and Alexandrian conquests.
Contrary to popular belief, no significant genetic shifts were detected in the Egyptian population during 1,300 years of foreign rule, including the Greek, Roman, and Alexandrian conquests.
Hebrew origin: from Hebrew כנען (Kənaʿan), passed through Koine Greek Χανααν and Latin Canaan.
Greek: found as "Khna" (Χνᾶ) in Hecataeus' writings (c.
That would fit the later Greek picture of the Phoenicians.
Stephanus of Byzantium, a 6th-century AD lexicographer, quotes Hecataeus in his Ethnica when he discusses place names, and such quotes confirm "Khna" as an early Greek name for the region.
Ancient and modern writers attest to the presence of asphalt (Greek) and bitumen (Latin) around the Dead Sea, especially around the southern part.
This page lists the ancient nations and tribes of the Bible world in rough time order, from the Sumerians and Akkadians to the Greeks and Romans.
Summary: The Greeks shaped Western culture, philosophy and politics.
The conquests of Alexander the Great spread Greek culture across the Near East.
Kedarites, Dedanites: Arabian tribes, significant in trade during the Persian and Greek periods.
Togarmah: Possibly a tribe in Anatolia, mentioned in prophetic literature, likely contemporary with the Greeks and Romans.
Mycenae was a major center of Greek civilization during the late Bronze Age and is often associated with the legendary King Agamemnon from Homer's epics.
The term "Cyclopean" derives from the later Greek belief that only the mythical Cyclopes could have moved such enormous stones.
Nimrod as a Legendary Hero: Another approach suggests that Nimrod was a legendary Mesopotamian hero, potentially Gilgamesh, Lugalbanda, or even an eponym parallel to the Greek traditions of Ninos.
Although the Book of Genesis portrays Nimrod favorably as the first post-flood king and builder of cities, the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible presents him as a giant and mistranslates the Hebrew phrase meaning "before Yahweh" as "in opposition against God." Consequently, Nimrod became associated with idolatry, embodying the archetypal idolater.
Greek historians of the Hellenistic period and beyond associate him with the city, but his exact identity in Assyrian records remains uncertain.
Greek tradition, as well as biblical tradition, both have mythical figures who are kings that founded and built the great Mesopotamian cities, temples, towers, etc.
He is currently known for his innovative work on the late date and Greek sources of the Hebrew Bible and on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Ctesias, a Greek physician to the Achaemenid King Artaxerxes II, lived in the 5th century BC and wrote extensively, with one of his notable works dating around 400 BCE.
Hercules: The legendary hero of Greek mythology presents an interesting possibility as an antecedent to the character of Nimrod, especially if you factor in Gmirkin's later dating of the composition of the Pentateuch.
"Monolith": The page reads the "great millstone" (Greek mylon megan) of verse 21 as a great monolith, pointing to lost structures or technology.
They are not translations of the Greek.
On Sacred Texts, his chapter on Greek gods and Atlantean kings states that Peru’s sun, moon, and planet worship “probably represents very closely the simple and primitive religion of Atlantis,” with sacrifices of fruits and flowers.
Belly and Thighs of Bronze: the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great.
Some suggest a link with the Greek ástē, “city”.
Others see a pre-Greek origin in the name.
He notes that Pallas has no youth in Greek myth and is a virgin goddess, while Min-erva is a burgtmaagd who arrives as a foreign priestess:
In this reading, the Frisian priestess became the model for the Greek Pallas Athena.
Below is the original Greek text from Critias 108d-109a, along with a literal English translation.
But in the Septuagint (Greek translation) and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the wording is different:
The Sumerian, Biblical and Greek traditions each describe a world before the great flood.
The Greek texts are quoted in public-domain translations.
Greek mythology speaks of the Titans, colossal beings who ruled before the Olympian gods.
The Greek genealogy of the gods is on my Theogony page.
The Greek gods were also directly involved in human life.
Greek myths tell of a decline from the Golden Age to the Iron Age, as human behavior became worse.
The Greek gods also punished humanity for its crimes.
Greek (Βαβυλών - Babylōn): As the name Bavel/Bāb-ili was adopted into Greek, it became Babylōn (Βαβυλών).
The Greeks often transliterated foreign names to fit their own phonetic and writing systems.
Latin (Babylon): The Greek Babylōn was then adopted into Latin, retaining the form Babylon.
“For,” he says, “they considered him, the lord of heaven, to be the only god and called him Beelsamen, which is ‘Lord of Heaven’ in Phoenician, Zeus in Greek.”
After these remarks, he berates the error of the Greeks and says:
“For it is not without reason that we have defined these things in many ways, but because of the later erroneous transmissions of the names related to these matters, which names the Greeks, out of ignorance, received in an improper sense, misled by the ambiguity of translation.”
He is the one whom the Egyptians called Thouth, the Alexandrians Thoth, and the Greeks Hermes.
Such are the things told about Kronos; and such are the solemn tales about the life of the contemporaries of Kronos as that is celebrated by the Greeks.
“The Greeks, who surpass all men in their natural cleverness, first appropriated most of these tales.
The one most anciently known, and also the shorter, is that which Berosus took from the sacred books of Babylon, and introduced into the history that he wrote for the use of the Greeks.
The fact that the scene of the Deluge is located on the Euphrates proves nothing, for we will see hereafter that almost every nation had its especial mountain on which, according to its traditions, the ark rested; just as every Greek tribe had its own particular mountain of Olympos.
The biblical references to islands and coastlands that could be connected to Greek mythology and the legends of Atlantis are primarily those that mention distant and possibly mythical lands.
Connection: This verse mentions Greece and "distant islands," which could be interpreted as referencing far-off, possibly mythical lands in the Greek imagination.
Connection: Rhodes is a significant location in Greek mythology, often associated with Helios, the sun god.
While not directly connected to Atlantis, Rhodes was considered one of the prominent islands of the ancient Greek world and could symbolize the far-reaching influence of ancient maritime powers, similar to the legendary Atlantis.
He references his ongoing series of videos exploring the presence of Yahweh's cult in Sardinia and the Greek islands' mystery cults.
Greek myth places its smiths, metals and treasure under the earth.
This page collects the mines and underground workshops named in Greek myth and history, with the ancient text behind each one.
Hephaestus is the Greek god of fire, smiths and metalwork.
In Greek mythology, Mount Tmolus is personified as the god Tmolus, a mountain god and the son of Ares, the god of war, and Theogone.
Mount Tmolus was also associated with the worship of Cybele, the Phrygian mother goddess who was later assimilated into Greek and Roman mythology.
Mount Othrys holds a crucial place in Greek mythology as the stronghold of the Titans during the Titanomachy, the epic battle between the Titans and the Olympian gods.
This battle was a defining moment in Greek mythology, marking the overthrow of the old gods and the rise of the Olympians.