Hermione Wrote:
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> Doug Weller Wrote:
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> > Is there an Atlantis myth? Does a story by
> Plato
> > qualify as a myth? I'd say no.
>
> Well, as I understand it, it incorporates elements
> of ancient myth - in particular, the Flood (as
> mentioned in the myth of Deucalion) - and uses it
> as a sort of Dreadful Warning to contemporary
> Athenians about the sort of disaster that can
> happen if people don't behave properly.

I agree, but can a myth have an author?



Doug Weller

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