Can one of the most sought after
places on Earth be a place that may have never existed in the first place?…or even
if no one actually knows where it is located?… maybe it was just the product of
someone’s imagination, a legend of no real form or substance…actually, it was a
fictional island that was mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critiasjust…the
story concludes with Atlantis becoming unpopular with the deities in charge, and
submerging into the Atlantic Ocean…despite its relatively minor importance in
Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had and continues to have a considerable
impact on literature and some people’s way of thinking…now some ancient writers
viewed Atlantis to be nothing more than fictional or metaphorical myth…yet,
others believed it to be real, something that was tangible...it is a legend so
strong that people have tried to find it, pinpoint it, and claim that it really
was…and just where this island of paradise might be…guesses from these people
have been from the Mediterranean Sea, to somewhere under the Atlantic Ocean, to
off the coast of Europe, or even in Antarctica…in fact, many of the proposed
locations of Atlantis have nothing to do with the actual writings of Plato and
his story…in some cases, amateur scholars have misinterpreted Plato's narrative
as not fiction, but historical tradition…and some have used that as a misguided
basis for trying to determine where the island is…or supposedly is.
