Plato: Selected Myths Labor Edmond Dantès is confined to

Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If

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Plato: Selected Myths Labor Edmond Dantès is confined to"Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist." We are used to thinking of myths containing lines like this simply as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was unveiled reality, and for Plato, who was a myth maker as well as a myth teller, a myth could tell us something important about ourselves and our world. The ultimate purpose of Plato's myths is to help us live a