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Just today I found a precursor of Velikovsky (fl.1950) in the Timeaus (ca.360 BC): > the truth of [Phaeton] lies in the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies
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Just today I found a precursor of Velikovsky (fl.1950) in the Timeaus (ca.360 BC):
> the truth of [Phaeton] lies in the occurrence of a shifting of the bodies in the heavens which move round the earth, and a destruction of the things on the earth by fierce fire, which recurs at long intervals.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Tim.+22 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Tim.+22
Tangent: “O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children: there is not such a thing as an old Greek.” — can we think of any nations to which this stereotype is applied in our time?