Atlantis (place name) (English spelling) Atlantis

Japanese: Atlantis(地名)(英語表記)Atlantis
Atlantis (place name) (English spelling) Atlantis

…When the Athenian statesman and poet Solon traveled to Egypt, the local priest praised the bravery of the Athenians of old and told him stories based on ancient records. According to them, 9000 years before Solon's time, there was an island called Atlantis beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, which the Greeks called the Pillars of Hercules. It was larger than Asia and Libya (Africa) combined, and five pairs of twins of the god Poseidon ruled over the island in ten parts. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Atlantis" (place name) is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…かつてアテナイの政治家であり詩人でもあったソロンがエジプトに旅行した折,その地の神官が昔のアテナイ人の勇敢さをたたえ,古い記録に基づいて彼に語って聞かせた体裁をなしている。それによると,ソロンの時代をさかのぼる9000年以前,ギリシア人が〈ヘラクレスの柱〉と呼んだジブラルタル海峡のかなたにアトランティスAtlantisという名の島があった。それはアジアとリビュアつまりアフリカを合わせたよりも大きく,ポセイドン神の5組の双生児が島を10分して支配していた。…

※「Atlantis(地名)」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Atlas Coelestis (English spelling)

>>:  Atlantic palolo (English spelling) Atlanticpalolo

Recommend

Folk Kiln - Minyo

In contrast to the official kilns and feudal kilns...

Sulfuric ester - sulfuric ester

A general term for compounds in which one or two h...

Toyotomi [town] - Toyotomi

A town in Teshio County in northern Hokkaido. The ...

Iputo Isuto - Iputo Isuto

…The largest temple in ancient Egypt, known as Ip...

Hallucination - genkaku

The definition of illusions and hallucinations in...

Saxifraga cortusaefolia (English spelling) Saxifragacortusaefolia

… [Michio Wakabayashi]. … *Some of the terminolog...

The Bride of Otori Castle

...This medium-length film made Nakamura Kinnosuk...

Togouchi [town] - Togouchi

A former town in Yamagata County, in the western p...

Odawara stories

…It is also called Odawara Dango or Odawara Banas...

Illyrian Party

...But the nationalistic literary movement develo...

Nakao Tozan

A Tozan-ryu shakuhachi master. First generation. ...

Deep Sea Nakatsu - Deep Sea Nakatsu

A monk of the Muso school of the Rinzai sect in t...

Ando Sekiten

At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the All...

Kyoto official appointment - Kyokanjimoku

...In the mid-Heian period, for example, the cere...

Lewis, G.

…Dizzy Gillespie, known as Parker's good budd...