Atlantis 101: What you Didn’t Know About the Legendary Mythical City

In 360 BC, one of the most famous greek philosophers, Plato, wrote Timaeus and Critias. In the Critias story, Atlantis makes its appearance in literature for the first time. Plato was obsessed with creating the ideal city. Many of his works, such as the Laws or the Republic attempt to give a detailed account of how an ideal state and society should operate. Eventually though, he got tired of speculating and decided to actually design his own ideal city by writing the myth of Critias. The myth tells the story of two cities that existed 9000 years before Plato’s time: the mighty island of Atlantis, located outside the Pillars of Hercules, or in modern terms, outside the straits of Gibraltar, and primeval Athens, a city that was actually the ancestor of modern-day Athens. Plato presents these two cities as opposites, each one designed as “ideal” in its own way. Naturally, because the story is written by an ancient Greek philospher the two cities had to battle each other with *spoiler alert* primeval Athens defeating Atlantis and freeing the countries of the Mediterranean from the Atlantean rule. <a href="https://medium.com/@eirinimak30/atlantis-101-what-you-didnt-know-about-the-legendary-mythical-city-de2251032430">Visit Now</a>