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What did Plato have to do with Atlantis?

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Plato never set foot on Atlantis. Most scholars believe that Plato recalled the story from records of the past. Plato even claims in the Critias that the records of the incident were translated and given to Solon, the famous Athenian law-maker, from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Greek. The majority of the information we have on the "original" concept of Atlantis comes from Plato's Timaeus, where it is said "...in a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea."

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Plato wrote the Atlantis around 360 BC


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