When Ignatius Donnelly published his 1882 book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, a new wave of scholars, conspiracy theorists, and believers developed an interest in the fabled lost city.
the version of Atlantis in Plato’s dialogues was anything but. Plato first told the story of the lost city in Timaeus and Critias, which serve, still, as the foundation of all other legends ...
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato once wrote that Atlantis — everyone's favorite lost island civilization ... Plato placed the island city-state near the modern-day Strait of Gibraltar ...