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NOT A FICTION...........................

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Some studies shows the fact that the story of Atlantis is not a story that has an accurate beginning and accurate end. If we look it carefully through the lines of Plato’s tale we can realize the fact that his work is based upon the reference of the third person’s Confessions. Smart isn’t it. If anything is not accurate he can blame it on the guy that is telling story. We do that all the time. Blame Solon, blame anyone you want. After all history is not an exact science. But anyway the characters that Plato is using in his version of Atlantis story are really very important history figures. Let’s take for example Solon. A very distinguished personality of 6th century b.c. Even Cricia is a very important figure in Hellenic history .He used to be the member of the “the thirties” in Athens a technocracy of the first half of 4th century when Cricia was the main ruler and as it turns out from the historians the person who convicted Socrates .He was Plato’s uncle too. Now if you were Plato w