Last week at the Greek site of Akrotiri on Thera, a protective roof collapsed, killing a tourist and injuring another. Akrotiri is one of the candidates for the basis of Homer's Plato's legend of Atlantis, in that the Minoan site was destroyed when the volcano erupted, nearly taking the entire island of Thera with it. This editorial in the English edition of the Greek paper Kathimerini discusses why this is a reminder that rules of death and life have not changed with the millennia.
ekathimerini.com | The Thera dialogues
ekathimerini.com | The Thera dialogues


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It was Plato’s Atlantis, not Homer.
Silly me. Of course it was Plato. Thanks!
Kris