Atlantis as a textbook example.

Originally posted by Gazrok


There are THREE distinct places in the Critius dialogue where Plato emphasizes that this is a TRUE tale.

Will they think the earth was populated by Hobits, Dwarfs and Orc during 20th century?

Originally posted by longbow
However I wonder what will future archeologists think when they find some excerpt of LOTR books. Will they think the earth was populated by Hobits, Dwarfs and Orc during 20th century?

But back to topic, one of the main reson why I think that Plato has faked most aspect of his story are his tales about "Athenians fighing against Atlantis", while Athenians wereweak and (relatively) primitive people 1000BC who were barely able to sail to Troy.

Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
Atlantis might be based in fact, although I seriously doubt any civilization existed 10000+ years ago that had flying cars and stuff like that, else we would have evidence of such an advanced civilization somewhere.

For example, if our civilization was wiped out, we would still have buildings, cars, planes, roads, and all the rest. A lot of it might be damaged or destroyed (suppose we had a nuclear war or something) but even ruins would be evidence that someone had been there. We have none of that for Atlantis. A person could argue that it's all underwater, but that would mean that Atlanteans never travelled anywhere and never once left anything behind, and that no one found them remarkable enough to write about, except Plato.

Originally posted by Indellkoffer


No, they won't. Tolkien was a famous scholar and I don't think you can erase the billions of references to him or the fact that his world was fantasy and fiction.

And no, they wouldn't get confused by homo-whassisface.