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The whole island and the ocean were called " Atlantic". There at the inner hill the land was enclosed all round by alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another there were two of land and three of water. Near the plain, and also in the centre of the island at a distance of about fifty stadia, there was a mountain not very high on any side. There was a plain which is said to have been very fertile. The land became an impassable barrier to voyagers sailing to any part of the ocean. This supposedly was sunk by an earthquake. Those on the outside was suppose to inhabit an island greater in extent than Libya and the then known Asia. Sonchis, priest of Thebes, is purported to have translated it into Greek for Solon.Īccording to Plato's story, over nine thousand years ago a war between those outside the pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them took place. Plato's account purports to be based on a visit to Egypt by the Athenian lawgiver Solon, itself quite possibly a legendary event. Atlantis might be a work of fiction, yet an extended parable intended to illustrate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government.
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Plato's Timaeus (21e - 25d) and his Critias are the only written accounts of Atlantis in these Plato gives some information on the size and location of the island of Atlantis. And Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides. Solon passed the tale to Dropides, who was the great-grandfather of Critias. The origins of the story of Atlantis date back to Egyptian priests who transfered it to Solon. According to historical accounts, the story of Atlantis was about the conflict between the ancient Athenians and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before Plato's existence.