[3] viXra:1103.0058 [pdf] submitted on 14 Mar 2011
Authors: Rainer W. Kühne
Comments: 6 pages, published in: Science and Technology in Homeric Epics; ed. S. A.
Paipetis, Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Vol. 6
(Springer, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4020-8783-7), pp. 509-514
Good fiction imitates facts. Plato declared that his Atlantis tale is philosophical fiction
invented to describe his fictitious ideal state in the case of war. I suggest that Plato used three
historical elements for this tale. (i) Greek tradition on Mycenaean Athens for the description
of ancient Athens, (ii) Egyptian records on the wars of the Sea Peoples for the description of
the war of the Atlanteans, and (iii) oral tradition from Syracuse about Tartessos for the
description of the city and geography of Atlantis.
Category: Archaeology
[2] viXra:1103.0041 [pdf] submitted on 12 Mar 2011
Authors: Rainer W. Kühne
Comments: 82 pages, book, in German
This book describes how between 1984 and 2004 the author developed his theory that Plato's
Atlantis tale is to a large part philosophical fiction which includes independent historical
elements. The Atlantis tale refers to the Mycenaean Athens, the war of the Sea Peoples, and
to the Bronze Age Tartessos. This theory found world-wide media interest since 2004. Moreover
Jürgen Spanuth's Atlantis = Helgoland (North Sea) theory is discussed in detail. In addition
the historical elements of the Argonautika and the Gilgamesh epos are examined.
Category: Archaeology
[1] viXra:1103.0040 [pdf] submitted on 12 Mar 2011
Authors: Rainer W. Kühne
Comments: 2 pages
Literary evidence supports the following view.
Tartessos and Tarshish were identical. Tartessos
was the model for Plato's Atlantis. The
Tartessians traded with precious metals,
especially with silver. Among their trade
partners were the Phoenicians, the Hebrews, and
the Greeks. The capital of Tartessos lay in the
Donana National Park. Tartessos existed from
the tenth to the sixth century BC.
Category: Archaeology