Re: Atlantean
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 9, 2004, 11:55 |
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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!
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