There was a great capital city on the central island. The lush islands contained gold, silver, and other precious metals and supported an abundance of rare, exotic wildlife. Their home was made up of concentric islands separated by wide moats and linked by a canal that penetrated to the center. They created a utopian civilization and became a great naval power. The founders of Atlantis, he said, were half god and half human.
Plato told the story of Atlantis around 360 B.C. It has a lot of elements that people love to fantasize about." "It's a story that captures the imagination," says James Romm, a professor of classics at Bard College in Annandale, New York.
So why is this story still repeated more than 2,300 years after Plato's death? If the writing of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato had not contained so much truth about the human condition, his name would have been forgotten centuries ago.īut one of his most famous stories-the cataclysmic destruction of the ancient civilization of Atlantis-is almost certainly false.
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