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Atlantis (not a city but an island, by the way) never existed. It was a made-up story written by the Greek philosopher Plato. Since the earliest days people recognized it as just a story, written by Plato to illustrate what an 'ideal' State should look like. Plato situated his made-up island somewhere in the vicinity of Gibraltar, in the Mediterrenean near the Atlantic Ocean.

Of course later writers started to wonder if Atlantis - especially its sinking into the sea in a single night - might not at least have been based on an event that had really happened. Much paper has been spent on the question which of the islands that (partially) sank under water might have been the inspiration for that part of the story. There were plenty of contenders among the Greek islands, since the Mediterrenean in the very early days was much more prone to volcanic activity and earthquakes than it is now.

It is therefore not improbable that Plato based the idea that an island could indeed disappear into the sea at a single stroke, on stories that were going around of natural disasters that had long ago happened in the area. On the other hand, he made it disappear right after it was to have made a failed attack on his hometown Athens, so he probably wanted it to look as a ´punishment by the gods´. But Atlantis itself is purely fictonal, although 19th and 20th century writers and some treasure hunters started to thrill their audiences with stories that it might very well have actually existed and placed it about everywhere on the map.

What did the Atlantis citizens do according to Plato´s story? Since he was describing the ideal State here, they were all being model citizens, industrious, upstanding and going about their daily business in the most exemplary fashion. Not very exciting, but there you have it.

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