Kalglodril

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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Kalglodril t1_ivo12ni 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

"He" never claimed anything. A fictional character in one of his fictional dialogues claimed that he heard it from a pseudo-fictional relative in a fictional anecdote.

Plato's Timaeus is the first instance of Atlantis being mentioned in any Greek text, which as a historical culture rehashes or discusses older stories is relatively remarkable and heavily implies that Plato was the originator of the myth.

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