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Plato's Atlantis

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Athenian Story - Critias and Critius

Critias got it from his grandfather who got it from Solon, the sixth century statesman and poet. The Egyptians were very famous for the antiquity of their culture. In this version, they are in a state that was founded 8,000 years ago. And then, by some means, they're not clear. They knew about primeval Athens, which was 9,000 years from this event. So that's how the transmission is prevented. Egyptian priests, the Solon, Solon through the family. There's no such thing as an old Greek. You're just born yesterday. But who is Plato writing for? He's writing for Greeks.

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