088 Athena and Poseidon fight over the city of Athens (guess who wins)

And to start off with my new format of doing these blogs every other week, I'm going to do the story about how Athens got its name. Now like I said two weeks ago in my Atlantis blog, I've been to Athens, sure it was four hours of quickly driving to see all the ruins, but at least I got to see this:


And right where I think Pope John Paul II stood for a pic

087 Atlantis sinks because they are as arrogant as Flyers Fans

Stories of ancient cosmopolitan civilizations being destroyed is not unique to Greek Mythology, but the story of Atlantis is by far the most famous of these myths. This is an interesting entry though, since this myth was actually created by the famous philosopher Plato after a trip to Egypt.

Much like the "myth" of Slenderman, the whole story of Plato was a fabrication of his imagination based on the historical destruction of the city Helike and the island of Santorini. (First was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami and the other was destroyed in the famous Thera eruption) Plato said his idea stemmed from from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC. In Egypt, Solon met a priest of Sais, who translated the history of ancient Athens and Atlantis to him.


Plato, pointed upwards more times than Sin Cara