Caleb Jones

So Plutarch is a historian.

He's writing probably 600, 700 years after the conversation with Solon, 400 years after Plato.

And he notes in The Life of Solon, one of his books, that Atlantis is probably real.

He kind of laments the fact that the dialogues don't complete their tale about Atlantis, and so it just kind of fades off.

But he definitely believes it's real.

Strabo is a Greek geographer.

He believes it's real as well.

He knows that.

Philo of Alexandria is a Jewish writer.

He's writing in the first century AD.

He believes that it's real.

Even, I think, Tertullian also quotes it and he treats it as a real place.

And he treats his destruction as a real event.

But things change in the Enlightenment.

And so in the 1600s, that's when people start to look back at myths and even look back at the Bible, and we start to have this evolutionary idea of mankind, whereas we start from the mud and from the swamps, and then we evolve up.

And so, myths are seen, starting in this time, as, oh, well, they're genuine.

They're just from mankind in a pre-rational state.

Like, they're not even smart enough to know their own history is kind of the way that it comes.

And that kind of is just the way that it goes with, you know, references to Poseidon.

We got associations with the biblical flood.