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The name Atlantis is derived from the ancient Greek term for "island of Atlas." Atlantis was mythologized to have been founded by Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas. He made his son Atlas the king and named the city after him, as well as the ocean around it, hence the Atlantic Ocean.
Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top.
Atlantis: the legendary island that sank beneath the waves in the distant past, taking down with it an advanced civilization. Is it possible that we will ever find it? Or, more importantly: Did it even exist?
Atlantis is a legendary city described by the Greek philosopher Plato (c. 429 – 347 BCE). Atlantis, a fabulously wealthy and advanced civilization, was swept into the sea and lost forever in a story which has captured the imagination of readers ever since.
First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.
These formations look like they were made by humans, leading many to ask if these areas could be lost cities or underwater streets. While these formations are human-made, they are only made of data. In other words, there are no physical lines on the ocean floor.
In 360 B.C.E., Plato wrote about the lost city of Atlantis that sank into the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago, but where was Atlantis — and did it ever even exist?
As propaganda in Plato's morality tale, the Atlantis legend is more about the city's heroic rival Athens than a sunken civilization; if Atlantis really existed today and was found intact and...
There was a great capital city on the central island. There are many theories about where Atlantis was—in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Spain, even under what is now Antarctica.
Atlantis, a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, lying west of the Strait of Gibraltar. The principal sources for the legend are two of Plato ’s dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.