Not Exactly Atlantis: Some Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Myths

López-Ruiz, Carolina

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“…427-347 BC) includes in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias (Table S1.2a,b). Historians of Antiquity agree that the legend of Atlantis is a fictitious story with philosophical and political intentions (Vidal-Naquet 1990;López-Ruiz 2022). Be that as it may, Plato describes real geographical landmarks of the far west, locating the island of Atlantis in the outer ocean, beyond the Pillars of Heracles -which the ancient Greeks identified with the Strait of Gibraltar -facing the shores of the region of Gadeira (i.e.…”

Section: Iberian Peninsulamentioning

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A Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Sixth Century B.C.? A Review of the Historical, Archaeological, and Geological Evidence

Martí-Aguilar

2023

Seismological Research Letters

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This article offers an overview of the published evidence of the possible occurrence of an earthquake and tsunami that, if factual, would have struck the shores of the Gulf of Cadiz sometime in the sixth century B.C. It addresses the oldest literary sources containing accounts of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian peninsula, and their inclusion in the most important seismic catalogs in Spain and Portugal, as well as examining the geoarchaeological evidence of an earthquake and tsunami in the city of Huelva, dating to the first quarter of the sixth century B.C., relating it to geomorphological and sedimentary evidence of extreme wave events in the Gulf of Cadiz in about 2500 B.P. The information provided by Greek authors writing in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., which depicts the ocean beyond the Strait of Gibraltar as impassable and replete with shallows, might also be an indirect reference to that seismic and high-energy marine event, whose intensity, exact date, and repercussions for the inhabitants of the Gulf of Cadiz are essential objects of research.

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Section: Iberian Peninsulamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Sixth Century B.C.? A Review of the Historical, Archaeological, and Geological Evidence

Martí-Aguilar

2023

Seismological Research Letters

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Not Exactly Atlantis: Some Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Myths

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A Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Sixth Century B.C.? A Review of the Historical, Archaeological, and Geological Evidence

A Major Earthquake and Tsunami in the Gulf of Cadiz in the Sixth Century B.C.? A Review of the Historical, Archaeological, and Geological Evidence

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