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« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2010, 01:36:20 am »

    "Although for Plato it is proto-Athens that is the paradigm, Atlantis has attracted enormously greater attention thanks to the simultaneously circumstantial and imaginative character of the myth." (emphasis mine. This quote is from Pierre Vidal-Naquet, "Athens and Atlantis: Structure and Meaning of a Platonic Myth," in The Black Hunter, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, p. 264. Translation by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.)

    --Akhilleus (talk) 20:05, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

            Your citation stems from Vidal-Naquet, "Athens and Atlantis: Structure and Meaning of a Platonic Myth" - the title already shows, that it is not a "myth in general" but a "platonic myth". The context makes it clear, that V-N is NOT just talking about a myth, but about a platonic myth. So your source supports my point of view. --Athenaios 20:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

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