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points by bajard 19 hours ago | 0 comments

What Plato describes perfectly fits a volcanic island, including the central pillar of rock that some volcanoes have as a volcanic plug, thermal springs and the ring of water inside the caldera.

And the way Atlantis supposedly ended also fits what happens on volcanic islands.

Nobody at the time could fabricate it out of his own imagination. The description is too accurate.

[–] nemo 17 hours ago

What Plato described was an invention he created for a philosophical parable, it wasn't intended as history and treating it as such would be akin treating Batman comics as history. The imagined and fictional island was also beyond the Pillars of Heracles which means it was in the Atlantic, not in the Mediterranean.

[–] skrebbel 18 hours ago

As well as the mighty, powerful, technologically advanced empire run by.. Santorini?

[–] ughitsaaron 17 hours ago

They had indoor plumbing!

[–] bajard 17 hours ago

Indoor plumbing is very ancient. Many ancient civilizations had it, although generally only for the rich, temples, or government buildings. The Indus Valley and ancient Egypt developed it 4,500 years ago (2500 BCE). (Greek) Minoan Crete followed around 3,700 years ago (1700 BCE).