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To: Bernard Marx; Cronos

The location that fits Plato’s description no longer exists, y’know, because as he noted, it was lost to the sea “in a single dreadful day and single dreadful night”, never to be seen again. But I’d be pleasantly surprised if something major (like a submerged town) were found pretty much anywhere in the world. The former banks of the former estuaries would be the best places to start searching, IMHO.


40 posted on 02/16/2011 4:06:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Bernard Marx

Of course Plato just mentioned it in passing, so there was a lot of myth around it even then. Who knows, it may have originated with a Mycenean village of 200 being submerged by a wave in 1900 BC ;-P


42 posted on 02/16/2011 5:17:08 AM PST by Cronos ("They object to tradition saying that they themselves are wiser than the apostles" - Ire.III.2.2)
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To: SunkenCiv
" The former banks of the former estuaries would be the best places to start searching, IMHO."

Yup. The Rhine and Thames were once the same river.

43 posted on 02/16/2011 6:48:09 AM PST by blam
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