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Plato's Atlantis

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The History of Athens by Plato

Myth is really important for Plato because myth speaks to parts of our psyche, which are not purely our rational part. He remodels the landscape of Attica so that the Acropolis becomes a land power in itself and more fertile. Critias picks up on the idea that you can tell something completely fictive 'in order to brainwash the people' Chris Gill: "I think another way of looking at this might be in terms of his evocation of wars"

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