Volume 12, Number 10 · May 22, 1969
Atlantis or Bust
By M.I. Finley
Voyage to Atlantis
by James W. Mavor Jr.
Putnam's, 320 pp., $6.95
Plato interrupted the flow of several of his dialogues to tell a myth, the purpose of which was to convey in an imaginative or symbolic way a truth not (or less) accessible to his usual dialectical method of demonstration. They were eschatological or more general religious truths, with one striking exception: the myth of Atlantis, told near the opening of the Timaeus and again, with much fuller detail, in the Critias, a fragment of a dialogue that breaks off in the middle of the myth.
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