“There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes.” — Sonchis of Sais in Plato’s Timaeus
Plato’s Atlantis is a written record of a story told to a ten-year-old Critias by his 90-year-old grandfather and recounted in adulthood at Socrates’ gathering based on a transcript that was still in his possession.
Did Herodotus See “The Suppliants”?