DevilsWelshAdvocate t1_ivo3mxf wrote on November 9, 2022 at 11:11 AM

Reply to comment by Kalglodril in TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby

Everything is fictional if you don’t know the facts. We’re talking about a time where extremely little was written down, let alone maintained and kept for todays world to see and understand. You can make your presumptions and perhaps are more likely to be correct than I, but there could be more to this, such as the timespan being in line with the younger dryas in the story, a crazy incredible coincidence?

Kalglodril t1_ivo44az wrote on November 9, 2022 at 11:17 AM

No, those are literal fictional. Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue, it's fictional.

These are not presumptions, this is based in literature. Timaeus (the text where this was first mentioned) and its relationship to myth was the subject of my Undergraduate dissertation and then I wrote a further 40'000 words on Platonic dialogues in my research based MLitt. I severely doubt you have read as much primary or secondary academic literature concerning Plato.

DevilsWelshAdvocate t1_ivo47xf wrote on November 9, 2022 at 11:18 AM

Conveniently leaving out the year lining up to the younger dryas period huh, I wonder why..