ATLANTIS
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Definition: ATLANTIS
Where Was Atlantis?

Atlantis: ATLANTIS, in the tradition of antiquity, a large island in the Western Ocean (the ocean to the west of the known world), near the Pillars of Hercules. The first recorded accounts of Atlantis, which is said to have been engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake, appear in Timaeus and Critias, two dialogues by Plato. According to the account in Timaeus, the island was described to the Athenian statesman Solon by an Egyptian priest, who maintained that Atlantis was larger than Asia Minor and Libya combined.

The priest further revealed that a flourishing civilization centered on Atlantis reputedly about the 10th millennium BC, and that the nation had conquered all the Mediterranean peoples except the Athenians. In Critias, Plato records the history of Atlantis and depicts the nation as a utopian commonwealth.

Although Plato's descriptive material and history are probably fictional, the possibility exists that he had access to records no longer extant.

The tradition that a lost island such as Atlantis once flourished has always fascinated the popular imagination, and the tradition continues to survive. In the 20th century some oceanographers have advanced the theory that Atlantis was once a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. The island, called Thira, was buried by a volcanic eruption about 1500 BC. Other theories have been based on archaeological discoveries. Scholars have variously identified the island with Crete, the Canary Islands, the Scandinavian Peninsula, and America.

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Was there an ATLANTIS?

The story of the lost continent of Atlantis is told in two of Plato's dialogues, the Timaeus and Critias. Critias claims that the story of Atlantis was told by Solon by Egyptian priests.

The legend describes how there had been a great continent in the Atlantic, "beyond the Pillars of Hercules" containing a remarkable civilisation which had flourished some 9,000 years earlier.

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