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You definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist to buy any of the myriad contemporary Atlantis myths and the veracity of Plato's claims. The history podcast Our

You definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist to buy any of the myriad contemporary Atlantis myths and the veracity of Plato's claims. The history podcast Our Fake History has an excellent three episode arc about Atlantis, including Plato's account. https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/ https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-2/ The upshot is that his account does not match up with any real world location, unless you are willing to engage in cherry-picking and an extremely generous interpretation of various things, and there is no credible explain of how he alone could have gained such detailed knowledge of a civilisation that existed thousands of years before his birth. One which no other historical writer mentioned. In reality, Plato's description of "Atlantis" was considered as plainly allegorical by his contemporaries and subsequent scholars. A situation that continued for hundreds of years, and only began to change in the relatively recent past, with the rise of pseudo-history and conspiracy theorists.

snapdangle 8y ago
I assume you are aware of and have real refutations for the proposition that the Eye of the Sahara could be a location for Atlantis? And you are absolutely incorrect about Plato's description being considered allegory at the time. Anyone during his time could have gone to Egypt and asked the same questions Solon did and gotten the same answer from the same temple. You are repeating wrote cultural knowledge as if you had real research to back it up.
noetic_techy 8y ago
Would you have said the same of Troy right up until they found it a few years ago? Can you point me to where in those podcast they discredit that the Richat structure in Africa does not fit the description of Atlantis? This documentary is pretty sober and not at all fanciful, lays out how the Richat matches Plato's description exactly: https://visitingatlantis.com/ https://visitingatlantis.com/ You absolutely don't need to buy into the fanciful myths of Atlantis to speculate that is probably was an ancient bronze age city located at the Richat.
Kinnard 8y ago
"definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist" might be going to far. History gets a major rewrite every so often somehow at each turn there's no room for heterodoxy . . .

snapdangle 8y ago

I assume you are aware of and have real refutations for the proposition that the Eye of the Sahara could be a location for Atlantis? And you are absolutely incorrect about Plato's description being considered allegory at the time. Anyone during his time could have gone to Egypt and asked the same questions Solon did and gotten the same answer from the same temple. You are repeating wrote cultural knowledge as if you had real research to back it up.

noetic_techy 8y ago

Would you have said the same of Troy right up until they found it a few years ago? Can you point me to where in those podcast they discredit that the Richat structure in Africa does not fit the description of Atlantis? This documentary is pretty sober and not at all fanciful, lays out how the Richat matches Plato's description exactly: https://visitingatlantis.com/ https://visitingatlantis.com/ You absolutely don't need to buy into the fanciful myths of Atlantis to speculate that is probably was an ancient bronze age city located at the Richat.

Kinnard 8y ago

"definitely have to be a conspiracy theorist" might be going to far. History gets a major rewrite every so often somehow at each turn there's no room for heterodoxy . . .