# Atlantis. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis/232082 "2004-03-02T07:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis/232082/21 "2004-03-03T22:03:06Z")
As stated earlier, there is no extant evidence before Plato. Whether he heard a story and passed it on or made one up from whole cloth cannot be established. People are certainly free to theorize on no evidence. In fact, it makes it much easier. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis/232082/22 "2004-03-03T22:20:45Z")
> [@Willmore](#): > > Also, my book will be strictly fiction… Man, if you’re looking for “strictly fiction” about ancient societies both real and imagined, there’s no better person to begin with than _Chariots of the Gods_ author Erich von Daniken. That dude is so out there! I mean, I’m all for disseminating new ideas to wage the war against ignorance, but this guy’s crock overflows with so much BS that it actually sets the rest of us back; it’s like cleaning your fingernails with a felt-tip marker! In _Chariots_, von Daniken argues that all the megalithic cultures around the world that achieved massive public works (Pyramids of Giza, ziggurats in Central America, etc.) couldn’t possibly have done so without assistance from beings from another world. His latest research, upon which he expounded at a lecture in nearby Plano, Texas (I couldn’t find my tin foil hat so I elected not to attend), reveals: > [@](#): > > … that the ancient Greeks had encounters with an alien’s race, and that what we consider age-old myths are actually historical fact, as opposed to Norse myths, which stemmed from long nights of mead drinking. Did you know that the oracle site at Delphi was actually an aircraft refueling station? That the city of Atlantis was destroyed in a war between aliens? That Jason’s pursuit of the Golden Fleece was actually a search for a vital aircraft component? It’s sort of cross between _The X-files_ and _Clash of the Titans_, I guess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis/232082.md?page=1)