Message #218312

[Angels & Demons]

Please offer your arguments on the basis of the Wikipedia definition of Myth. And please stop reverting a necessary improvement of the article. Thank you. --Athenaios 19:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

    I don't really care about the definition of myth. All that matters here is that scholars usually refer to Atlantis as a myth; Wikipedia's role is to report the views of authoritative sources, not to establish the absolute truth. Here's an excerpt from a reliable source:

    "There are then three rules for the historian who wishes to understand the myth of Atlantis. He must not sunder the two cities that Plato has linked so closely together. He must constantly refer himself to the physics of the Timaeus. And consequently, he must relate the historical myth whose structure he is trying to explain to Plato's "idealism." The success of a properly historical interpretation depends entirely upon the extent to which this preliminary task is performed.