Atlantis during the Second Age has many similarities with the Victorian Era -- a collision of new technologies against tradition, scientific innovations, inventions that made life easier and more productive, new forms of travel that allowed people to discover new countries. It was a continent and culture so advanced that during its Third Age the technology existed to destroy it utterly, and so it was. A diaspora of Atlanteans traveled mostly eastward to what is now the Mediterranean area, Africa, and some traveled up the east coast of North America.
So, for those who have a picture of Atlantis as an ancient, Greco-Roman culture with shades of Xena, Warrior Princess when it's portrayed, that may be what is being remembered. Entertaining stories to be sure, however, not sprung from the esoteric literature that exists about Atlantis at its height of development, which was researched for these stories and mentioned in a previous blog about that subject -- how to research speculative fiction as if it was historic fiction? My premise: it is historic fiction, and a history that contains the seeds of a cautionary tale.
The Casebook of Elisha Grey chronicles mysteries and crimes that happened hundreds of years previous to that diaspora, which forced Atlanteans into a more simple way of life that we associate with antiquity. So don't be surprised if you read these stories that what you read about is in many ways a culture as modern as our own -- and in some ways, even more modern.
More about that modernity in terms of scientific advancement and innovation in future blogs....
So, for those who have a picture of Atlantis as an ancient, Greco-Roman culture with shades of Xena, Warrior Princess when it's portrayed, that may be what is being remembered. Entertaining stories to be sure, however, not sprung from the esoteric literature that exists about Atlantis at its height of development, which was researched for these stories and mentioned in a previous blog about that subject -- how to research speculative fiction as if it was historic fiction? My premise: it is historic fiction, and a history that contains the seeds of a cautionary tale.
The Casebook of Elisha Grey chronicles mysteries and crimes that happened hundreds of years previous to that diaspora, which forced Atlanteans into a more simple way of life that we associate with antiquity. So don't be surprised if you read these stories that what you read about is in many ways a culture as modern as our own -- and in some ways, even more modern.
More about that modernity in terms of scientific advancement and innovation in future blogs....