City Of Atlantis
Basic Structure of Research Report
Introduction (this will be a long paragraph) give background information such as: what is the myth, how long has it been a myth, what is the mystery surrounding the myth – just generally inform your reader about this myth.
Thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
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Plato and because modern discoveries prove it could not have existed during that time period.
Body paragraph 1: The Lost City of Atlantis has been researched by modern scientists for almost a century now.
Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
Body paragraph 2: The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one
another.
Body paragraph 3: Several ancient writers and philosophers have been known to believe in the legend, including one of his former students by the name of Xenocrates. His commentary of Plato’s dialogue helped keep the story alive for much longer than it may have lasted. Sir Thomas More, a 16th Century writer, wrote a work of fiction inspired by the legend of Atlantis portraying the island as a veritable utopia (he coined the term). Ignatius L. Donnelly in 1882 published a commentary on the City of Atlantis which sparked a great popular interest in the lost city, and he saw it as being technologically sophisticated for its time. And recently as theories regarding continental drift became more pronounced during the 1960’s people flocked to the idea of a sort of hidden world tucked away beneath the ocean.
Conclusion: Clearly this story of Plato’s is no original Greek legend, and simply an invention of his that modern historians have confused as such. It is entirely possible that he could have merely been writing a piece of fiction, and over time other writers mistook it for fact. Hence the story of the Lost City of Atlantis should not be considered historical, but only what it is: a story.
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Requirements
___Quality research: at least 2-3 valid sources
___Title for the report properly formatted
___Create a Works Cited page (MLA format) for your sources
___Use in text parenthetical documentation of sources
___Use basic organizational pattern above
___Instructor must approve any topic choice not listed here
Evaluation
___Must include the above listed criteria
___ Ideas and Content
___ Organization
___ Voice
___ Word Choice
___ Sentence Fluency
___ Conventions
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The Lost City of Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?
The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
The Lost City of Atlantis has been researched by modern scientists for almost a century now. Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one another.
Several ancient writers and philosophers have been known to believe in the legend, including one of his former students by the name of Xenocrates. His commentary of Plato’s dialogue helped keep the story alive for much longer than it may have lasted. Sir Thomas More, a 16th Century writer, wrote a work of fiction inspired by the legend of Atlantis portraying the island as a veritable utopia (he coined the term). Ignatius L. Donnelly in 1882 published a commentary on the City of Atlantis which sparked a great popular interest in the lost city, and he saw it as being technologically sophisticated for its time. And recently as theories regarding continental drift became more pronounced during the 1960’s people flocked to the idea of a sort of hidden world tucked away beneath the ocean.
Clearly this story of Plato’s is no original Greek legend, and simply an invention of his that modern historians have confused as such. It is entirely possible that he could have merely been writing a piece of fiction, and over time other writers mistook it for fact. Hence the story of the Lost City of Atlantis should not be considered historical, but only what it truly is: a story.
MLA Citations
Radford, B.. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .
. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .
n.d. n. page. .
. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .
Introduction (this will be a long paragraph) give background information such as: what is the myth, how long has it been a myth, what is the mystery surrounding the myth – just generally inform your reader about this myth.
Thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
Sample thesis: The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth because it is not a traditional tale, but one contrived by …show more content…
Plato and because modern discoveries prove it could not have existed during that time period.
Body paragraph 1: The Lost City of Atlantis has been researched by modern scientists for almost a century now.
Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
Body paragraph 2: The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one
another.
Body paragraph 3: Several ancient writers and philosophers have been known to believe in the legend, including one of his former students by the name of Xenocrates. His commentary of Plato’s dialogue helped keep the story alive for much longer than it may have lasted. Sir Thomas More, a 16th Century writer, wrote a work of fiction inspired by the legend of Atlantis portraying the island as a veritable utopia (he coined the term). Ignatius L. Donnelly in 1882 published a commentary on the City of Atlantis which sparked a great popular interest in the lost city, and he saw it as being technologically sophisticated for its time. And recently as theories regarding continental drift became more pronounced during the 1960’s people flocked to the idea of a sort of hidden world tucked away beneath the ocean.
Conclusion: Clearly this story of Plato’s is no original Greek legend, and simply an invention of his that modern historians have confused as such. It is entirely possible that he could have merely been writing a piece of fiction, and over time other writers mistook it for fact. Hence the story of the Lost City of Atlantis should not be considered historical, but only what it is: a story.
D3JSVpKWl1VWV5KX1hRQV5MX14EF1pL
Requirements
___Quality research: at least 2-3 valid sources
___Title for the report properly formatted
___Create a Works Cited page (MLA format) for your sources
___Use in text parenthetical documentation of sources
___Use basic organizational pattern above
___Instructor must approve any topic choice not listed here
Evaluation
___Must include the above listed criteria
___ Ideas and Content
___ Organization
___ Voice
___ Word Choice
___ Sentence Fluency
___ Conventions
D3JSVpKWl1VWV5KX1hRQV5MX14EF1pL
Begin typing here …
The Lost City of Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?
The Lost City of Atlantis is not a true myth, as it is not, in any way, depicted in the traditional way that most myths were presented at the time. It can only be found in the philosopher Plato’s works, and no other poets or writers at the time have been recorded as telling the story or taking it seriously. Thus, Plato had to have invented it around the time, rather than simply retold the story, as most myths tend to be.
The Lost City of Atlantis has been researched by modern scientists for almost a century now. Nearly all of the evidence they have discovered points towards the city being a total fabrication. Many locations have been hypothesized as that of the Lost City of Atlantis, but most are either not located in the Atlantic, as the ‘true’ Atlantis is purported to be, or discovered via pseudoscientific means. All the underwater locations that have been investigated either bear no marks of ruins or artifacts, or are simply the remains of an already known civilization.
The Lost City of Atlantis is first mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias around 360 BC. He wrote that its navy was unmatched in all the world, and yet one day, after a failed invasion of the Greek city of Athens, it sank into the ocean in a single night. Nowhere is there substantiation that this could possibly be a traditional tale, and even back then no one took the story as seriously as some people do today, It also never appears in any discovered historical texts aside from Plato’s, whereas most true myths tend to intertwine and reference one another.
Several ancient writers and philosophers have been known to believe in the legend, including one of his former students by the name of Xenocrates. His commentary of Plato’s dialogue helped keep the story alive for much longer than it may have lasted. Sir Thomas More, a 16th Century writer, wrote a work of fiction inspired by the legend of Atlantis portraying the island as a veritable utopia (he coined the term). Ignatius L. Donnelly in 1882 published a commentary on the City of Atlantis which sparked a great popular interest in the lost city, and he saw it as being technologically sophisticated for its time. And recently as theories regarding continental drift became more pronounced during the 1960’s people flocked to the idea of a sort of hidden world tucked away beneath the ocean.
Clearly this story of Plato’s is no original Greek legend, and simply an invention of his that modern historians have confused as such. It is entirely possible that he could have merely been writing a piece of fiction, and over time other writers mistook it for fact. Hence the story of the Lost City of Atlantis should not be considered historical, but only what it truly is: a story.
MLA Citations
Radford, B.. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .
. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .
n.d. n. page. .
. N.p.. Web. 9 May 2013. .