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To: Cronos

Two of Plato’s dialogues are in large part devoted to the discussion of Atlantis, so it wasn’t really just mentioned in passing. He’s literally the only ancient source of the tale; there’s a reference I’ve seen to a later Greek tourist, Creon, who claimed to have seen the written version of the story orally transmitted in the dialogues, carved on a wall of some grand building in Egypt, but as there is no such written version on any known Egyptian structure, Creon was probably getting buggered by a tour guide, who were no more reliable then than they are now.


47 posted on 02/16/2011 5:02:13 PM 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; blam
Creon was probably getting buggered by a tour guide, who were no more reliable then than they are now.

:)

Isn't there supposed to be graffiti on the pyramids dating back to Roman times (of the kind "xxx was here")?
48 posted on 02/16/2011 11:30:32 PM PST by Cronos ("They object to tradition saying that they themselves are wiser than the apostles" - Ire.III.2.2)
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