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Kalglodril t1_ivo44az wrote

Reply to comment by DevilsWelshAdvocate 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

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.

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DevilsWelshAdvocate t1_ivo47xf wrote

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

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