Atlantis: We Will Never Know


Fantasy is a tough sell in the twentieth century.

The world has been fully discovered and fully mapped. Popular media has
effectively minimized the legend and the fantastic rumor, though to make up for
this it has generated falsities not as lavish but just as interesting.
Satellites have mapped and studied the earth, leaving only a space frontier that
is as yet unreachable.
But standing out is a charming fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or
condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis.
The father of the modern world's perception of Atlantis is Plato (circa
428-circa 347 b.c.). (1) The Greek philosopher spoke in his works Timaeus and
Critias of a continent in the Atlantic ocean larger than Africa and Asia Minor
combined which rivaled Athens as the most advanced in the world. (2) According
to the legend surrounding Plato's dialogues, the island of Atlantis was
violently thrown into the sea by the forces of nature, and its few......

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