A Greek philosopher, Plato, first recorded the story of Atlantis. Plato first heard the tale of Atlantis from stories that were passed down from generation to generation from Solon, a Greek traveler and historian from Egypt. Solon received the story of Atlantis while staying with Egyptian priests. And Solon then brought the story to Greece (Stein 12). Plato then told of two accounts of Atlantis. These accounts were Timeaus and Critias. A summary of the two accounts is that Atlantis was the domain of Poseidon, the god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the middle of the continent and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her. Cleito gave birth to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers of Atlantis.

Crete and nearby Thera. The Minoans appear to have been very wealthy and very sophisticated. They were leaders in fashion, jewelry, artwork, and metalworking.

conclusion from its name. Atlantis was possibly on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underground mountain range. But this is near impossible, because this ridge is spread apart, and would have created a volcanic island, especially not near the size of Atlantis (Braymer 72-73). England and India have also been proposed to be the lost continent of Atlantis, but there is no hard evidence to support either of the theories.

caused massive earthquakes and massive waves that would reach 45 to 100 feet high. The massive water attacks, called tsunami hit the island of Crete along with the violent earthquakes. Which sent fires raging through the villages destroying everything. Then the volcano covered the island of Crete with layers of ashes (Stein 40). Thus, destroying the Minoan Empire. The stories of Atlantis and the Minoan Empire are very similar, but both nations were supposedly destroyed during two different time periods.

Seismologist Angelos Galanopoulos suggested that the islands of Thera and Crete were part of Plato’s Atlantis. He also thought that Plato’s numbers were ten times too large. Plato said that the fertile plain was about 2,000 stadia wide by 3,000 stadia long. That was two large of an area for it to fit in the Aegean Sea, where the Crete and Thera islands are located. Galanopoulos figured out that if one would divide the numbers by ten, then the island would be 200 stadia wide by 300 stadia long, a reasonable size for an Aegean island (41-42).

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