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  • Plato’s Atlantis after Plato January 7, 2011

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
    Plato's Atlantis after Plato

        Was or wasn’t Atlantis a creation of Plato (obit 347/348 BC)? In antiquity as today – see Beachcombing’s previous ravings – there were competing views with the majority including Poseidonius and Aristotle (or pseudo-Aristotle?) believing it a myth. Aristotle as a student of Plato has particular authority and his opinion reported in Strabo unnerves […]