largePenisLover t1_ivoikoi wrote
Reply to comment by bombayblue 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
Athens had no need for a fictional enemy. However Plato who lived in Athens DID need a fictional enemy for his fictional version of athens that was 9000 years old in his fiction. A fiction he wrote to describe what he considered to be the ideal city state.
A fiction that is only 2 pages long btw.
If you actually go read the text it's very obvious that it's plato going "a long time ago on an island far far away"
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