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of the people even today. Because
of generalizations given in the texts
concerning the possible locations
of Atlantis, interpreters today still
search for this city.
Plato’s dialogues
The first time that Atlantis was so that each deity might have their
mentioned was in one of Plato’s own lot. Atlantis was bequeathed
dialogues called the Timaeus and to Poseidon. The island was larger
Critias. It speaks of a certain than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor
adventurer who finds ancient text on combined, but it was later sunk
Atlantis within Egyptian scriptures. by an earthquake and became an
The deities of old divided the land impassable mud shoal, inhibiting