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What is human infatuation and obsession with "utopia" but remembrance of the perfection that was the promise of the Garden of Eden, a longing for that perfection but only a delusional notion of how to attain it again?
What is human infatuation and obsession with "utopia" but remembrance of the perfection that was the promise of the Garden of Eden, a longing for that perfection which is delusional, clueless, having forgotten or rejected how to attain to it?
 
[[wikipedia:Utopia|Utopia]] | Wikipedia<br>
[[wikipedia:Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction|Utopian and dystopian fiction]] | Wikipedia


  <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/view/7223/4153 The Greeks and the Utopia: an overview through ancient Greek Literature]</span>
  <span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/view/7223/4153 The Greeks and the Utopia: an overview through ancient Greek Literature]</span>
  It is a common experience to dream of a world where everyone would live happy and in harmony with both the environment and the other people, without sufferings and injustice, under a perfect socio-political system, without wars or hunger. This dream has inspired different people from different eras and cultures to build imaginary worlds for compensating the dissatisfaction with the current one. Utopia is the name of the imaginary world they proposed either as alternative one or as temporary oasis able to release people from the reality. Literally meaning ‘no-place’, the term has an ancient Greek root but it does not exist in the vocabulary of ancient Greek language. Although ancient Greeks did not have a conscious concept of utopia, they, however, dreamt, wrote, proposed — with different aims — what we would call now (paradoxically using a ‘modern’ term) ‘utopic’ worlds. From the archaic to the post-classic period, we find literary expressions of utopic thought in ancient Greek culture. Such expressions constitute the basis of the modern Utopia and Utopianism with their positive and negative implications. This essay takes a more detailed look at the work of Aristophanes, considered one of the greatest Greek playwrights, and inquires whether his comedies can be considered utopias.
  It is a common experience to dream of a world where everyone would live happy and in harmony with both the environment and the other people, without sufferings and injustice, under a perfect socio-political system, without wars or hunger. This dream has inspired different people from different eras and cultures to build imaginary worlds for compensating the dissatisfaction with the current one. Utopia is the name of the imaginary world they proposed either as alternative one or as temporary oasis able to release people from the reality. Literally meaning ‘no-place’, the term has an ancient Greek root but it does not exist in the vocabulary of ancient Greek language. Although ancient Greeks did not have a conscious concept of utopia, they, however, dreamt, wrote, proposed — with different aims — what we would call now (paradoxically using a ‘modern’ term) ‘utopic’ worlds. From the archaic to the post-classic period, we find literary expressions of utopic thought in ancient Greek culture. Such expressions constitute the basis of the modern Utopia and Utopianism with their positive and negative implications. This essay takes a more detailed look at the work of Aristophanes, considered one of the greatest Greek playwrights, and inquires whether his comedies can be considered utopias.


[https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/government/concepts/utopia Utopia: Introduction] | Infoplease<br>
[https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/government/concepts/utopia/the-utopian-ideal-over-time Utopia: The Utopian Ideal over Time] | Infoplease<br>
[https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/government/concepts/utopia/satirical-and-other-utopias Utopia: Satirical and Other Utopias] | Infoplease<br>
[https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/social-science/government/concepts/utopia/bibliography Utopia: Bibliography] | Infoplease
[https://utopiaordystopia.com/2012/03/04/utopias-secular-and-religious/ Utopia Secular and Religious]
[https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/107/fitting107.htm A Short History of Utopian Studies]
[https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/press/utopia-2016-year-imagination-and-possibility Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility]
[https://www.amazon.com/Quest-Utopia-Twentieth-Century-America-1900-1960/dp/0815627750/ref=asc_df_0815627750/ ''The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, Volume I : 1900-1960''] | Amazone
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==Eden==
[http://orthodoxinfo.com/phronema/evolution_frseraphim_kalomiros.aspx Genesis and Early Man] The Orthodox Patristic Understanding<br>
[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/the-quest-to-save-the-garden-of-eden/275278/ The Quest to Save the Garden of Eden]<br>
[https://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/eden.htm Garden of Eden]<br>
[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5428-eden-garden-of Eden, Garden of] | Jewish Encyclopedia<br>
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?]<br>
[https://creation.com/has-the-garden-of-eden-been-found Has the Garden of Eden been found?]<br>
[https://creation.com/eden-sanctuary Was the Garden of Eden a ‘sanctuary’ from a hostile outside world?]<br>
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apples-and-the-garden-of-eden_b_972550 Searching for the Forbidden Fruit of the Garden of Eden]<br>
[[wikipedia:Andrew_Linzey|Andrew Linzey]] | Wikipedia<br>
[[wikipedia:Christian_vegetarianism|Christian vegetarianism]] | Wikipedia<br>
==Golden Age==
[[wikipedia:Golden_Age|Golden Age]] | Wikipedia
==Plato==
[https://bigthink.com/the-future/platos-republic-dystopia/#rebelltitem1 Plato’s “Republic” was a <mark>totalitarian</mark> nightmare, not a utopia]<br>
Literature and philosophy are littered with visions of utopia drawn up by thinkers with various ideological frameworks. Some are based on alternative economic systems; some fit a specific view of human psychology; others hope to find harmony with nature. Like nearly every other area of intellectual endeavor, they all owe a debt to Plato, who did it first.
==Atlantis==
[[wikipedia:Atlantis|Atlantis]] | Wikipedia<br>
[[wikipedia:Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis|Location hypotheses of Atlantis]] | Wikipedia<br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPsyBUCijM Legend of Atlantis (Full Episode) - Drain the Oceans] | National Geographic<br>
[https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html 'Lost' City of Atlantis: Fact & Fable]<br>
[https://squarecircles.com/atlantis-eden-parallels/ Atlantis-Eden Parallels]<br>
[https://truthbook.com/quotes-about-life/the-eden-atlantis-connection/ The Eden/Atlantis Connection - Much More Than A Legend?]<br>
[https://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterEight.htm Chapter Eight: Adam and Atlas―Eden and the Fall of Atlantis] Typhon: A Chronology of the Holocene Period — Stephen E. Franklin<br>
[https://www.scribd.com/book/449942301/The-Search-for-Atlantis ''The Search for Atlantis'']<br>
==Renaissance==
[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/thomas-mores-utopia Thomas More's ''Utopia'']<br>
[https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/u/utopia-utopian-literature/sir-thomas-more-biography Sir Thomas More Biography]<br>
[https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/u/utopia-utopian-literature/about-utopia-and-utopian-literature About ''Utopia'' and Utopian Literature]<br>


==Oceania==
[https://www.amazon.com/Oceania-Victorian-Imagination-Things-Possible/dp/1409457117 Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible]<br>
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there.<br>
[https://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/travelaccts.html Travel Narratives]<br>
[https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/victorian-utopias Victorian Utopias]<br>
[https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/themes/visions-of-the-future Visions of the future]


==America==


==Scientific==


==References==
[https://utopian-studies.org/ The Society for Utopian Studies]<br>
[https://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_utopian_studies.html Utopian Studies] | Penn State University Press


[[wikipedia:Timothy_Miller|Timothy Miller]] | Wikipedia<br>
[https://religiousstudies.ku.edu/people/timothy-miller Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas]<br>
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, Volume I: 1900-1960 — Timothy Miller<br>
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond — Timothy Miller<br>
Communes in America, 1975-2000 — Timothy Miller
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century — Alice Reeve-Tucker and Nathan Waddell<br>
Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century  — George L. Hicks<br>
The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of Imaginary Societies — Glenn Negley and J. Max Patrick<br>
The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of Imaginary Societies — Glenn Negley, ed.<br>
The Great Courses Utopia And Terror In The 20th Century — The Teaching Company<br>
Urban Utopias in The Twentieth Century : Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier — Robert Fishman<br>
Utopia 1900-1940 : Visions of A New World — Nai010 Publishers<br>
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Utopia : A Collection of Critical Essays — William Nelson, ed.<br>
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century — J. M. Winter<br>
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture — Simon J. James<br>
West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California — Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, and Cal Winslow, eds.
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What is human infatuation and obsession with "utopia" but remembrance of the perfection that was the promise of the Garden of Eden, a longing for that perfection which is delusional, clueless, having forgotten or rejected how to attain to it?

Utopia | Wikipedia
Utopian and dystopian fiction | Wikipedia 

The Greeks and the Utopia: an overview through ancient Greek Literature
It is a common experience to dream of a world where everyone would live happy and in harmony with both the environment and the other people, without sufferings and injustice, under a perfect socio-political system, without wars or hunger. This dream has inspired different people from different eras and cultures to build imaginary worlds for compensating the dissatisfaction with the current one. Utopia is the name of the imaginary world they proposed either as alternative one or as temporary oasis able to release people from the reality. Literally meaning ‘no-place’, the term has an ancient Greek root but it does not exist in the vocabulary of ancient Greek language. Although ancient Greeks did not have a conscious concept of utopia, they, however, dreamt, wrote, proposed — with different aims — what we would call now (paradoxically using a ‘modern’ term) ‘utopic’ worlds. From the archaic to the post-classic period, we find literary expressions of utopic thought in ancient Greek culture. Such expressions constitute the basis of the modern Utopia and Utopianism with their positive and negative implications. This essay takes a more detailed look at the work of Aristophanes, considered one of the greatest Greek playwrights, and inquires whether his comedies can be considered utopias.

Utopia: Introduction | Infoplease
Utopia: The Utopian Ideal over Time | Infoplease
Utopia: Satirical and Other Utopias | Infoplease
Utopia: Bibliography | Infoplease

Utopia Secular and Religious

A Short History of Utopian Studies

Utopia 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility

The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, Volume I : 1900-1960 | Amazone

Eden

Genesis and Early Man The Orthodox Patristic Understanding
The Quest to Save the Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
Eden, Garden of | Jewish Encyclopedia
Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?
Has the Garden of Eden been found?
Was the Garden of Eden a ‘sanctuary’ from a hostile outside world?
Searching for the Forbidden Fruit of the Garden of Eden
Andrew Linzey | Wikipedia
Christian vegetarianism | Wikipedia

Golden Age

Golden Age | Wikipedia

Plato

Plato’s “Republic” was a totalitarian nightmare, not a utopia
Literature and philosophy are littered with visions of utopia drawn up by thinkers with various ideological frameworks. Some are based on alternative economic systems; some fit a specific view of human psychology; others hope to find harmony with nature. Like nearly every other area of intellectual endeavor, they all owe a debt to Plato, who did it first.

Atlantis

Atlantis | Wikipedia
Location hypotheses of Atlantis | Wikipedia
Legend of Atlantis (Full Episode) - Drain the Oceans | National Geographic
'Lost' City of Atlantis: Fact & Fable
Atlantis-Eden Parallels
The Eden/Atlantis Connection - Much More Than A Legend?
Chapter Eight: Adam and Atlas―Eden and the Fall of Atlantis Typhon: A Chronology of the Holocene Period — Stephen E. Franklin
The Search for Atlantis

Renaissance

Thomas More's Utopia
Sir Thomas More Biography
About Utopia and Utopian Literature

Oceania

Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there.
Travel Narratives
Victorian Utopias
Visions of the future

America

Scientific

References

The Society for Utopian Studies
Utopian Studies | Penn State University Press

Timothy Miller | Wikipedia
Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Kansas
The Quest for Utopia in Twentieth-Century America, Volume I: 1900-1960 — Timothy Miller
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond — Timothy Miller
Communes in America, 1975-2000 — Timothy Miller

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century — Alice Reeve-Tucker and Nathan Waddell
Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century — George L. Hicks
The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of Imaginary Societies — Glenn Negley and J. Max Patrick
The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of Imaginary Societies — Glenn Negley, ed.
The Great Courses Utopia And Terror In The 20th Century — The Teaching Company
Urban Utopias in The Twentieth Century : Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier — Robert Fishman
Utopia 1900-1940 : Visions of A New World — Nai010 Publishers
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Utopia : A Collection of Critical Essays — William Nelson, ed.
Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century — J. M. Winter
Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture — Simon J. James
West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California — Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, and Cal Winslow, eds.

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