Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:
> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > I wouldn't say the identification is "unmistakable" - certainly alot
> > of more- or-less clever people have made other identifications! -
> > but I agree the Minoan hypothesis is the best one.
>
> To me the most plausible explanation is that Plato made the story up
> in order to make a point. Nobody bothers to try to discover whence
> Thomas More got the story of Utopia, or what part of the Earth he
> could possibly have been referring to, after all!
I should have said I agree it's the best one under the assumption that there
has actually been a real-world Atlantis.
Andreas