The Atlantis Fantasy - Part One: The Platonic Idea

Historical Blindness by Nathaniel Lloyd

Aug 11, 202654:39Society & Culture

This series explores belief in the long-lived myth of Atlantis. In this first part, I look at the origin of the story in Plato's Timaeus and Critias and the reasons scholars have long concluded it was fiction. Check out...

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