Cintia Panizza Wrote:
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> I don’t believe was about politics
Plato was born during the Pelopennesian Wars, a time when, for various reasons, Athens was becoming ever more ambitious and powerful ... until its navy was defeated at the Battle of Aigiospotamoi in 405 BC. After this, the Thirty Tyrants (including Critias) took over - [
en.wikipedia.org], a turn of events viewed with dismay by Plato.
One of the main aspects of the "Atlantis" tale is a warning about the dangers of a state whose people become corrupted by greed: and this was what primarily concerned Plato.
His descriptions of Atlantis' destruction likely owe much to Deluge traditions current in his own time, such as Deucalion (whose own story was in turn inspired by the Near Eastern Flood myths described in Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, etc.): and possibly such events as Thera: [
www.maatforum.com]
> and I think too
> Atlantis is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
I rather doubt this. As I see it, Plato's Atlantis successfully tapped into a vein of much older myth ... but, if it never existed, there seems little point in seeking a physical location for it.
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