I don't think it'll fly, Rich.

The source for "Atlantis" is Plato. Plato didn't write histories and he didn't write myths down -- he wrote philosophy. In writing philosophy, he told stories which were outside the mythology and legend of the time. There are no stories about, for instance, how people lived in a cave and could only see shadows on the wall instead of living in the real world.



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> If Atlantis is the ideal place... and it gets
> destroyed by the Athenians at war... and then the
> Athenians get destroyed by a flood... then What's
> the point? What a terrible myth!!!!!!

Atlantis was the ideal place, but became corrupt which is why the gods destroyed it and left a vast and unpassable mud flat in its place (that's what Plato says in the original story.)

> I have argued that it's IO that goes to Egypt and
> marries an egyptian. The 3 great anscestors of
> Greece are IO, Deucalion, and Atlas.

Say what? Atlas was a Titan (son of two Titans) who held up the world and sired gods (not Greeks), Io was a human who got involved with Zeus (and we know who her children were -- one was Egyptian and two were Greek. But Greece in those myths is already established.) Ducalion's wife was Pyrrha. I'm not sure how old the flood myth of Greece is, but they repopulated the whole world (not just Greece) by throwing stones behind them.

> So what is the meaning then? Why is this the
> greatest retained, greatest discussed Greek myth?
> 50,000 theories?

If you actually read Plato, it's not about friendship. It's about rulers and the development of his Philosopher King concept.

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