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PDRugby OP t1_ivmigpj wrote

Reply to comment by GeneralNathanJessup in TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby

Do... do you think that Plato wrote the Illiad?

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DLM4473 t1_ivmlwkg wrote

I'm confused as to what point you think you're making ?

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PDRugby OP t1_ivmxo0y wrote

That the other commenter said Troy was exactly where Plato said it was. Troy, the city most famously described in the Iliad, which was written 400 years before Plato lived, was destroyed 400 years prior to that, and that (as far as I can tell) Plato has zero connection to and most certainly did not explain the location of.

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DLM4473 t1_ivn009j wrote

>(as far as I can tell) Plato has zero connection to

A number of people (Strabo being the first) have proposed that Pluto's story of Atlantis was a retelling of the Trojan War.

>and most certainly did not explain the location of

You sure about that ?

Do . . . Do you think trying to belittle someone's comment was a little premature and arrogant ?

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Kussypat t1_ivnvm1u wrote

>You sure about that ?

Yes. That's the Iliad. Plato had nothing to do with the Iliad. Plato has nothing to do with the location of Troy either.

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ComprehensiveCat2472 t1_ivmx4rt wrote

That Plato didn’t write the Iliad??

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DLM4473 t1_ivmyqub wrote

And Homer Simpson didn't write the Bible - but then nobody said he did !

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ComprehensiveCat2472 t1_ivmytf1 wrote

The guy he’s replying to literally said he did…

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DLM4473 t1_ivn0hip wrote

You need to literally look up what literally means !

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ComprehensiveCat2472 t1_ivn0ujh wrote

You need to reach the reading comprehension of a third grader, OC said “just where Plato said it would be” about Troy, when the ancient texts that reference Troy, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were definitely not written by Plato.

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DLM4473 t1_ivn1sok wrote

And at no point did the OC say they were written by Plato ! Did nobody reference Troy after Homer ?

Do you need to look up comprehension as well ?

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ComprehensiveCat2472 t1_ivn2ila wrote

Plato never described where Troy is… OC is an Atlantis believer who just pulled the name of the one Greek writer he knows out of his ass. Atlantis is an allegory invented by Plato.

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