Now. For Plato to have been able to twist the story it has to have happened adequately before Plato's active literary career for there to be no one around to protest (either in his early life or within a few generations before he was born). This is easily enough managed, because there are lots of floods one can tag as having been caused by the sinking of a huge island. The problem? There are too many bloody floods. So I ask you, Internets; what would be an appropriate big flood (even something as minor as a tsunami - it just has to have been significant enough for someone along the Atlantic to have written it down. Plato wrote Timaeus and Critias, the first written mention of Atlantis, in 360 BC. So I need a flood that happened within a couple hundred years before 360 BC. If you can think of more than one, hell, list 'em all! I'm just tired of reading about corrupted memory myths of the biblical flood today. Perhaps tomorrow.
Okay, kids. (And by "kids" I mean geologists and mythologists.)
Now. For Plato to have been able to twist the story it has to have happened adequately before Plato's active literary career for there to be no one around to protest (either in his early life or within a few generations before he was born). This is easily enough managed, because there are lots of floods one can tag as having been caused by the sinking of a huge island. The problem? There are too many bloody floods. So I ask you, Internets; what would be an appropriate big flood (even something as minor as a tsunami - it just has to have been significant enough for someone along the Atlantic to have written it down. Plato wrote Timaeus and Critias, the first written mention of Atlantis, in 360 BC. So I need a flood that happened within a couple hundred years before 360 BC. If you can think of more than one, hell, list 'em all! I'm just tired of reading about corrupted memory myths of the biblical flood today. Perhaps tomorrow.
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