From: Kevin W. Woodruff (cierpke@utc.campuscw.net)
Date: Sun Aug 15 1999 - 17:25:18 EDT
In Loeb edition of Plato it is 24e (page 41)
At 02:20 PM 08/15/1999 -0700, you wrote:
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>>From: "clayton stirling bartholomew" <c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net>
>>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>Subject: Plato Timaeus (off topic)
>>Date: Sun, Aug 15, 1999, 2:04 PM
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>> Cyrus Gordon, in Before Columbus (Crown, 1970, page108) says that Plato
>> in Timaeus makes reference to a continent that seals off the Ocean to
>> the west (America). Gordon does not give a reference in Timaeus so I am
>> having difficulty finding it. I tried looking up HPEIROS in LSJ to see
>> if there was a citation in Timaeus. This didn't produce anything.
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>> Anyone have an idea what this reference might be?
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>> I will go play with Persus and see what I find but I don't have much to
>> go on.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Clay
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>OK, It looks like I found it (Whew!) Timaeus 24e-25a.
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>it was possible for the travellers of that time to cross from it to the
>other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent [25a]
>over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean.
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>Any theories on what Plato is talking about here? Not Atlantis, but this
>other continent?
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>Clay
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