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The lost city of atlantis5/26/2023 ![]() What was its purpose in Plato’s writings? When was it first understood as a real place? And what’s the story of Atlantis that has proved so compelling? Yet since its ascent to modern myth in the late 19th century, there’s been little decline in its hold over the popular imagination.īut the legendary island was introduced to the historical record as an allegory. To the despair of generations of antiquarians, most scholarly opinion squares the story of Atlantis away as a thought experiment conceived by the Greek philosopher Plato. No city by the name of Atlantis has ever existed above the waves, and none has been punitively smote by gods so that it sank beneath them. No wonder, of course, as it didn’t exist. The hunt for the lost city of Atlantis has proven a long and arduous one, with many loose threads and dead ends.
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