Plato's Timaeus And Critias

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Atlantis was fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in plato’s works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges. Atlantis sunk into the Atlantic ocean after it was hit by a volcano eruption. Atlantis is 9000 years old, before the time of solon or a approximately 9600 B.C. Atlantis was built around aquaventure, a 141 acre waterscape which include fresh and saltwater lagoons, pools,marine habitats, and water slides and river rides. As of 2014, Atlantis has not been found, but researchers and scientists suggest that had Atlantis ever existed, the ost city would have sunk either during the pleistocene ice ages or around 1500 B.C. The fable of atlantis sinking is found in plato’s writing. April 24,2007. …show more content…

The tsunami that destroyed Ancient Atlantis, the island of Atlantis was first described plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, as lying “beyond the pillars of Hercules.” Atlantis was a naval power which conquered parts of western Europe and africa 9000 years before plato-approximately 9400