Investigating Atlantis and Other Lost Cities

Investigating Atlantis and Other Lost Cities — page 3
CH A PTER ONE PLATO S ATLANTIS ne of the first people to describe the legend of Atlantis in detail was Plato Plato was one of the most important thinkers of ancient Greece Around 360 BCE Plato wrote Timaeus This dialogue of Plato s mostly consists of a monologue a kind of dra matic story or speech told by a sole speaker or narrator Timaeus the speaker tells other characters among them the famous philosopher Socrates about the nature of the world and humanity Before Timaeus s monologue begins however another character named Critias first tells a tale about his fellow Athenian statesman Solon While traveling to Egypt an Egyptian priest had told Solon of the battle between ancient Athens and another power Beyond the Strait of Gibraltar which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean there lay a large