Word: timaeus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many serious scholars will accept Spanuth's theory without some questions. Most believe that when Plato described Atlantis (in the Dialogues Timaeus and Critias), he was merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
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