jkj90

jkj90 t1_j9res3l wrote

Reply to Do Attend Thursday Thread (Upcoming Events, Small Businesses, Local Artists) by AutoModerator

My band Mandy Valentine is releasing our debut double single on Spotify and all streaming services tonight at midnight! It was featured as local pick of the week today on WXPN and we'll be playing our release show at Ortlieb's this Saturday 2/25 with some great bands. Then we're starting a residency at Tin Can Bar in Port Richmond every Thursday in March with a different guest every week. Come by if you like classic country and rock & roll!

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jkj90 t1_ivlxtp4 wrote

Reply to TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby

It was likely both a piece of pro-Athenian propaganda and an allegory to allow for philosophical exercises created by Plato at a time of conflict among the Greek city states, the Peloponnesean War. The Atlanteans, no matter how advanced, were doomed to be destroyed when they tried to mess with Athens and the will of the gods. They were probably loosely based on the Minoans and eruption of the Thira/Santorini 1200 years prior. It was one of the biggest eruptions in history that helped to greatly re-shape early Bronze Age cultures around the Mediterranean-- just long enough prior to dance that line of vague cultural memory and fantastic myth.

Source: Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History double major/ lifelong Greek history nerd

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