Atlantis (was: Re: [UA] Commercial)

[Ysidro]

Nick Wedig wrote:
> 
> >> 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).
> 

Right.  I just wanted to make sure you were talking about Socrates in
the dialogue and not Socrates the person.  

> >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)
> 

Yup, everything goes back to Plato.  And we're back to your original
question, "why?"  Really, I think it just takes one person to make a
screwy interpretation and all the other sheeple will follow.   My
questions is "who was the first?"


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

Ok, so why?  To make it all more confusing and allow them greater
control over the belief of what Atlantis is?  To hide an actual
historical Atlantis?  To make people like me go nuts?
 
Greg "at least we're not explaining to people why Lemuria isn't real"
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~ysidro/pohemas.html

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