(MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: Is one of the world's greatest mysteries about to be solved? For years, many people have wondered if a place called Atlantis was real. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato first ...

Plato called it Atlantis nêsos, or the “island of Atlas,” and the philosopher didn’t intend it to represent the pinnacle of human achievement. Instead, the island civilization was designed ...

First described by Plato, Atlantis and its catastrophic downfall ... Quite why a story written 2,500 years ago by the Greek philosopher Plato continues to capture the public imagination is a ...

Atlantis did not exist. The philosopher Plato likely invented the nation to demonstrate the dangers of imperialism. It’s a landmass large enough that, if it really existed somewhere underwater in the ...

There are many purported “lost cities” throughout time, but none are more famous than Atlantis. First described by the Greek philosopher Plato, Atlantis served as an allegorical representation ...

Plato wrote that the story of Atlantis was originally told to the Greek jurist Solon by a priest during a visit to Egypt. The capital of Atlantis was constructed in a series of concentric circles ...

However, evidence suggests that the ancient Greek philosopher was responsible ... only author to have been seriously convinced by Plato's Atlantis. Back in 1882, US congressman and writer ...

The myth of Atlantis finds its roots in the writings of Greek philosopher Plato. Two of his dialogues, the 'Temaeus' and the 'Critas', dating back to the fourth century BC, refer to the city and ...