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The story of Atlantis has captured the brains and hearts of historians, scientists, artists, and authors for millennia, and yet it never ceases to impress people when informed that the one literary evidence that exists comes from a single fourth hundred years BCE writer. The Athenian philosopher Plato, famous for his dialogues where the Socratic Method was developed, was the first writer to mention the mystical continent of Atlantis. In his works Timaeus and Critias, Plato outlines the start of the storyplot of Atlantis, but the Critias, where the longer and more detailed account takes place, was never done and, therefore, is just about the mystical germ for millennia of thought. Put simply, what Plato wrote of Atlantis has all the components of a great Hollywood narrative, combined with the precision of a mapmaker. Based on the story, the god of the ocean Poseidon was allotted the island of Atlantis (bigger than Libya and Asia, relating to Plato), anywhere in the Pillars of Heracles. (This could be as definately not Greece as Gibraltar). Poseidon's 10 sons, who were princes, ruled the beautiful island, which was fertile and rich in resources, providing everything a heaven needed. Still, Atlantis had not been entirely an uncultivated Garden of Eden. Fortifications, highways, palaces, and constructions made this island a rich and well-constructed city.
