Mythological Age Scenario

[Arthedain]

Originally posted by Sarsstock
If there ever were Atlanteans

Who said there weren't?

Anyways, great cities curt, looking forward to those norse cities of yours..

[curtsibling]

New people file for UDB!

[Sarsstock]

This is now without a doubt one of the most anticipated scenario's in the works right now as far as I'm concerned.

[curtsibling]

Yep - The prospect of playing fantasy cultures is a really enticing one!

[Uncle Dead Bird]

Looking good, curtsibling!

These should make this scenario look spectacular!

Looking forward to the Norse cities, when they're ready!

Thanks for the show of interest Arthedain and Sarsstock! I'll try not to disappoint you.cool:

UDB:

[curtsibling]

I am honoured you like them, UDB!

Will get the Norse cities to ASAP!

[Arthedain]

I'm kinda curious about the map for this scen. When will we be able to see a preview?

[tanelorn]

Liakopoulos the Atlantean... :b

[Uncle Dead Bird]

I'll get a map to you shortly - I'm still working out Atlantis' rougher edges.

Say, tanelorn or varwnos, could one of you please compile a good Grecian or at least pseudo-Grecian sounding list of Atlantean city names - that is, ones that aren't real Greek cities (maybe some Minoan ones, though).

@curtsibling: Can't wait to see the Norse cities, there! Thanks for everything!

UDB

[curtsibling]

UDB, I will get them to you ASAP - I have been pretty much under siege this week!

[Arthedain]

I was googling Atlanis maps and found these two pics, maybe they can help you (at least one of them..

http://www.menschengeist.de/bilder/Atlantiskarte.jpg

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hardingd/images/books/atlantisMap.jpeg

[tanelorn]

By coincidence, my family's hometown of Rethymnon is a Minoan site. According to tradition, the name comes from Minoan "Rithymna", that means dolphin, the town's symbol. Since Linear A script hasn't been decyphered yet, it's mostly conjecture. My great grandma's vilage is Kouroutes, next to a Minoan mountain shrine. The Kouretes were Zeus' guardians during his infancy and gave their name to Crete. He was hidden after his birth in the Idaeon Andron (Mount Ida Cave) just above. Cretans held an to the absurd legend (for other Greeks)
he was burried under the same mountain.
Most Minoan sites bear later Greek names. I'll have to do some cross-checking.
Ancient sources (not just Plato)list a handfull of Atlantean cities. I'll check it up.

[tanelorn]

Probable place-names in Minoan from wiki.
Linear B (Mycenean Greek) renditions of Linear A (Minoan) symbols in Linear A scripts:
SE-TO-I-JA : place name, likely Archanes, as Owens has suggested. Occurs in Linear B as well.
PA-I-TO : place name, Phaistos. The same name is common on Linear B documents.
KU-DO-NI : if the reading is correct, a place name, Kydonia, the same as modern Chania
KU-NI-SU : appears to be a place name, perhaps Knossos, though it differs from Linear B KO-NO-SO.
TU-RU-SA : likely a place name, Tylissos.

[tanelorn]

From wiki again, Atlantean geography:
"According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis. The island was larger than Libya and Asia Minor combined, but has since been sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Egyptians described Atlantis as an island approximately 700 kilometres (435 mi) across, comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south "extending in one direction three thousand stadia [about 600 km; 375 mi], but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia [about 400 km; 250 mi]."

Fifty stadia inland from the middle of the southern coast was a "mountain not very high on any side." Here lived a native woman with whom Poseidon fell in love and who bore him five pairs of male twins. The eldest of these, Atlas, was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean (now the Atlantic Ocean), and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom. Atlas's twin Gadeirus or Eumelus in Greek, was given the easternmost portion of the island. The other four pairs of twins — Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and Azaes and Diaprepes — "were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the open sea."

Poseidon carved the inland mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size. The Atlanteans then built bridges northward from the mountain, making a route to the rest of the island. They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats. Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each of the city's rings. The walls were constructed of red, white and black rock quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass, tin and orichalcum, respectively"

[Uncle Dead Bird]

This is top stuff Arthedain and tanelorn! Thanks!

I'll need to make a new map, now. As much as I like the base map jim panse gave me, it just doesn't have enough room in the Atlantic.

I though of the Classic Civ 2 Europe map, but it's a bit smallish.

Any suggestions for a large Europe-Near East-North Africa map with a lot of Atlantic headroom?

UDB