Message #15377

[Devlin]

Most posters (like yourself, Bluehue) claim that Plato either made an error or was misinterepreted.

And yet, as we can see from the vast amount of references to the Atlantic Ocean, the Pillars of Hercules, and the geography of the Mediterranean, he could have gotten one wrong, however, he could not have been mistaken on all of them.

And we must also keep in mind just what the Greeks knew of their world at that time and their awareness of science - both far more than people like to give them credit for.  It is perfectly clear that there could have been no mistake.