Atlantis (was: Re: [UA] Commercial)

[Nick Wedig]

>> The thing is, Socrates says 
>
>You did mean Plato, didn't you?  Because if not,  I'm confused.  :)

Plato wrote the thing, but Socrates actually says the claims in the dialogues.  He's like the lead character in a play.  In some of the dialouges, you can speak of their opinions nearly interchangeably (though in others not).

>Great, now I'm getting interested in tracking down the history of belief
>in the existance of Atlantis.  So far Ignatius Donnelly's "Atlantis -
>The Antediluvian World" is the oldest non-Platonian reference I can
>find.  However, reading it gives an impression that this has been
>discussed before.

I'm unaware of any other primary sources about Atlantis (that is, people not using other sources as evidence of Atlantis, but just saying "I saw it" or similar)

Perhaps the Sleepers just eliminated all memory of these other sources, leaving only books quoting each other, but no actual information.

Mr. Teapot
sleeper agent

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