When talking about Aτλαντίς, Plato was thinking about the Persian invasion, but he placed the gigantic empire in the West instead of the East and was thinking about Athens before its humiliation at the hands of Sparta.Nothing different from today's idealized nostalgia. Antiquity is also full of cases of palingenetics.Palingenetic Ultranationalism: A term from political science coined by Roger Griffin to define the essence of fascism as a myth of "national rebirth" after a period of decadence
