Page 23 - HP3A 002 The Legend of Atlantis

for Atlantis, to the extent where

the name has become a concept

in itself aside from what Plato

had said. In history most of the

proposed locations were in or near

the Mediterranean Sea. The islands

around this part were Sardinia,

Crete, Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, in fact this tsunami was what sunk

and Malta. With land based cities the island of Atlantis. Before sixth

or states such as Troy, Tartessos, century BC, the mountains on each

and Tantalis. Because of the Thea side of the Gulf of Laconia also

eruption during the seventeenth or known as the “Pillars of Hercules”

sixteenth century BC causing a huge was the exact location where

tsunami, people hypothesized that Plato was mentioning when he