The Search for Atlantis by Steve Kershaw

Author:Steve Kershaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

Up until the latter part of the nineteenth century, most discussions about Atlantis, regardless of where they ended up, involved people educated in the Greek and Roman classics, whose knowledge of Atlantis would primarily have come from Plato at first hand. But that situation was to change in the 1870s with the release of one of the most celebrated and influential of all the Atlantis-related publications. This was the revolutionary sciencefiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1828-1905), whose deluxe version included III iconic illustrations that brought an especial vibrancy to both the text and the sunken world that it described.20 The narrator of the story is Pierre Aronnax, Professor in the Museum of Paris; the person who acts as guide in the visit to Atlantis is Captain Nemo, whose name clearly references Homer’s Odyssey, where, in his encounter with the Cyclops in the course of his maritime adventures, Odysseus cunningly gives his name as ‘No-man’, which translates into Latin as Nemo.

Captain Nemo proposes a ‘curious excursion’ to Monsieur Aronnax, who accepts. So they put on their diving gear and head out from their vessel, the Nautilus, into the deep:

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