well, if all evidence traces back to him, then that puts him as the source... otherwise, if there was another source, then the phrase "all evidence traces back to plato" wouldn't hold, would it?
i haven't had a chance to read chemchok's links yet to comment... network problems at home and i've been busy at work. this is one area i'm certainly open for ideas on... of course, i am a skeptic. the bummer is that we'll never know what really drove plato to the scant description he provided.
taks
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Nice try... but you fail.
Given the age of the info this could easily be a case of Plato being the only link to older info that may have been common enough at the time so he didn't feel the need to post sources but that has been lost to history sense.
There are a LOT of cases where this has happened historically.
To quote Volourn... you lose.