Some words about the Legend of Atlantis.

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46 S. mit Abb. Gutes Ex. - PREFACE // The present booklet is a reprint of a paper published by the author in 1950 in the Scientific Review Crelica Ghronica (The Cretan Annals ) IV (1950), pp. 195-213 under the title («On the Atlantis Legend). . The real facts which contributed in compiling the above paper are the following: In 1932 I undertook an excavation in Crete in order to show if Amnissos, a shore about 7 km. to the East of modern Herakleion, was indeed the harbour town and arsenal of Minos. Only Strabo (cap. 476) mentions this fact as a mere tradition. The tradition was proved sound: A villa decorated with fine frescoes, a second building in which abundant pumice was found, a great older (Middle Minoan) retaining wall and an altar to Zeus Thenatas (this epithet appears for the first time) were found. The altar is especially interesting, as evidence for the tradition, as the cult lasted there down to the Roman period. Already, in the first preliminary publication, two fundamental facts came to my mind, first that Thera and its volcano were responsible for the presence of pumice at Amnissos; and second, that a great and widespread catastrophe befell Crete at this time (Practica of the Achaeological Society of Athens, 1932, pp. 79-80 and 91). However, only two years later I was able to connect and to amplify the two facts and to attribute them to the huge eruption of the volcano of Thera. After some preliminary reports the final paper was published in the English review Antiquity (vol. XIII, 1939, pp. 425-439). The ideas expressed in it were judged generally as audacious and even the Editors of Antiquity added a note at the end of the paper to the effect that «this article requires additional support from excavations on selected sites». Instead of excavations, the Second World War broke out. For Greece, the situation was for many years even more difficult after the end of the War. The «additional support from excavations» required by the scholars came only in 1967, after long study and preparation of this technically difficult task. In the meantime it became instinctively apparent to me, that sooner or later the Atlantis question would warm up again owing to the discussions about the sinking of Thera and the results of this disaster. I decided to speak twice on this question and soon after I published the lectures in the paper cited above and which appears here translated into English. I did not attempt to revise it although today I would rewrite the paper, at least in some passages, in another style. However, the theme remains the same and the proposed explanations also. (Vorwort). Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 904619

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