... both around 500,000 - 800,000, of which 120,000 were employed in the military, which possessed 120 ships (Civilization). However, these are not the exact figures. While translating the notes of Solon, Plato made an error. He interpreted the Greek symbol for 100, as the symbol for 1000, thus throwing every statistic off by a factor of ten. Despite the resulting ... " (Luce 121). Not coincidentally, the remnants of post eruption Thera are circular, around a deep lagoon, with another small island in the center. Also, Plato speaks of the stone quarried from under Atlantis: "one kind of stone...

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