Message #253724

[cicero]

Look, I think you confuse some things. The original Atlantis story was not written at Plato's time. It was written at the time when Atlantis attacked Egypt. And this record was later found by Solon. So, the question is not whether Solon and Plato knew the Atlantic or not - of course they did. The question is rather, whether the original Egypian author knew the Atlantic. We have to be aware that we only know a kind of Greek transcript of an Egyptian original story which was much older.

And since Atlantis in the Atlantic can be excluded, there is only one possibility left for the existence of Atlantis: That in the course of the account's tradition before (!) Plato a mistake was made. The most likely point in time is the tradition from an Egyptian text into a Greek text at Solon's time.

This is a fully valid argument, yet - of course - Atlantis is still not found.