The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Two: A Convenient Fiction

Historical Blindness by Nathaniel Lloyd

Aug 25, 202664:23Society & Culture

In part 2 of my series on belief in the historicity of Atlantis, I look at how the myth was kept alive through the ages because it conveniently served the arguments of philosophers and lent weight to the fictions and rac...

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