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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you look into flood myths, there are also hypotheses involving comet or asteroid impact flooding, which could have happened at many other times.

By the time the Greeks determined the circumference of the earth, this flood would already have been a legend and a fading cultural memory. It almost definitely would be oral history and not recorded in any physical form. What proof could anyone have that it didn't cover the whole world?

Not knowing about glaciation or interplanetary objects it would be extremely hard for the people of the era not to have decided that some spiteful god had tried to wipe out the entire earth.