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« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2010, 01:37:50 am »

            At any rate, here's another source (P. Y. Forsyth, review of Zangger, The Flood from Heaven, in American Historical Review 98.5 (1993), p. 1565):

                "...thus Eberhard Zangger concludes his novel attempt to decipher the Atlantis myth of Plato's Timaeus and Critias...
                "To reach this conclusion, Zangger first accepts Plato's word that the tale is true without attempting any analysis of his use of myth...
                "More interesting is how Zangger came to consider Troy as the possible origin of the Atlantis myth..."

            The phrase "Platonic myth" does not occur anywhere in Forsyth's review. --Akhilleus (talk) 21:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

                    I cite your citation of Forsyth: "... his use of myth" - Yes his use of myth. Plato's myths are vastly different from "usual" myths. And this we have to make clear. Besides the question, whether Atlantis is a platonic myth, I am heavy in doubt about this. This Forsyth seems to be one of those, who haven't read Zangger carefully (or didn't want it?), since it is simply wrong that Zangger has no idea of the "platonic myth". But that is another thing. --Athenaios 16:01, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

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