Atlantis

These Atlantis writers fall into four main categories: 1) Those who accept Plato's story as perfectly true. 2) Those who believe that Atlantis did exist, but not in the Atlantic Ocean, and suggest various other locations. 3) Those who claim that the Atlantis story is a compilation of legends and historical facts relating to various peoples and different ages. 4) Those who believe that the story is fictitious and an invention of Plato's imagination. (Bacon 13) Where the true story goes from here is anybody's guess. Some theories posses more convincing evidence and more credibility; "It is therefore quite clear that the story of Atlantis in the original form that we know is not an invention of Plato, but an actual story brought from Egypt by Solon; and Plato, realizing that it might be considered as a myth, wished to forestall such an eventuality and, in the Timaeus alone, flatly states four times that the story is indeed true." (Donnely 78) We know that the Egyptian priest didn't make it up because his story was confirmed by many of his colleagues in the ancient world. These references were found in such texts as those destroyed in the Great Library of Alexandria. .
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             THE GLORIOUS PARADISE OF ATLANTIS. The utopian state of Atlantis, as described by Plato, would have been one of the most glorious, manmade establishments ever created and maintained. In order to sustain such a technologically advanced civilization, the infrastructure and support systems had to have been unthinkable in their complexity. It started at the most fundamental level, foodstuffs. Atlantis" agricultural abilities proved crucial to supporting it's impressive size. To quote the Critias : "It produced and brought to perfection all those sweet scented stuffs which the earth produces now, whether made of roots or herbs or trees, or of liquid gums derived from flowers or fruits . . . All these that hallowed island as it lay then beneath the sun produced in .