Is the story about Atlantis sinking on the bottom of the ocean true or false?

Plato, writing 2400 years ago, more or less, records the words of Socrates in his dialogue called the Critias. Socrates tells a story of an ancient island which he heard about from his father, which was already lost long before his fathers time.


Socrates describes what he heard about the place. It was one of the lands which was granted to Poseidon when the lands were being divided between the Gods. It was named after its first king whose name was Atlas, who also gave us the name for the Atlantic Ocean.


He talks about the geography of the place and says it was very beautiful with farming plains, plenty of animals and timber, and the people, who were descended from Poseidon and were very noble, greathearted and truehearted people. He talks about some of their festivals, their clothing, how they used water wheels to irrigate their land and transport lumber down from the mountains, how they had a metallurgy which was lost at the time of Socrates speaking and they used it to create a bautiful and useful alloy more valuable than gold, and he describes some of their architecture, and so on.


Eventually these great people got a little too far removed from the nobility of their godly ancestors and they lost what was so great about them, so Zeus passed judgement on them and sank the island beneath the waves.


This is the earliest known mention of the island and people of Atlantis, and each and every speculation about the place has come from what Plato has to say about it. There is no earlier reference, no physical evidence of the place has ever been found. Plato does talk about where it was, but his understanding of geography was not the greatest, and our knowledge of some of the reference points he uses is pretty muddy too, so there's really no telling exactly where it might have been.


It was already long gone by the time Plato wrote about it, and he was just passing down old stories. Specifically, he was using to illustrate how he supposed it happened that so many places came to have Greek names.


It may have just been a story, but it may have been based in reality. We may never know. But it has fired peoples imaginations for thousands of years since he talked about it, and there has certainly been plenty of fanastic speculation about what kind of place it might have been and what might have happened to the place and its people.Is the story about Atlantis sinking on the bottom of the ocean true or false?
I wrote a novel entitled ';Atlantis: Precious Stone';, whose plot, when I first conceived of it and began imagining and creating it, I thought might be some sort of channeled revelation. In retrospect now, I regard it as an esoteric fantasy. Plato was the originator of the Atlantis legend, but his method of relating the story was through several other people who passed it along (a la the childhood game of ';Telephone';). Thus, no one has ever been able definitely to confirm or disprove the existence of Atlantis, although many efforts have been made to locate it in diverse sites around the world. Edgar Cayce, the mystic, predicted that Atlantis would be discovered near the Bahamas, and, in fact, underwater structures that appear possibly to have been man-made have actually been discovered near Bimini there. Other suggested locales are in the Mediterranean Sea near Crete where, reportedly, an island was destroyed by a volcanic eruption, and even in Antarctica. Plato located Atlantis ';beyond the Gates of Heracles (Hercules)';, which are widely regarded to be the Straits of Gibraltar; that would place Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere; some have postulated near the Canary Islands. My Atlantis covered an area one thousand miles in diameter in the region of what are currently the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, where magical remnants of it may still remain!!Is the story about Atlantis sinking on the bottom of the ocean true or false?
It is a good question but the answers are not conclusive, there are those who swear for Atlantis story and those who say it is a fable. Please see the link below. I hope it helps.
The Atlantis myth as generally understood, comes from Plato. He placed its location outside the Pillars of Hercules, in the Atlantic Ocean, but this is purely fanciful.





A tremendous tsunami, probably way bigger than anything we have seen, took place when the volcano Thera erupted, today the island of Santorini.





Not sure about the dates, but maybe this wiped out the Mycenaean civilization, which the Greeks of Aristotle's time assumed was Homeric-era legend but which today we know really existed since the Palace of Minos has been excavated. Incredible pottery from the Knossos era has been recovered and can be seen in the Louvre. Particularly striking is La Parisienne.


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This tsunami event is not related to the Hebrew legend of Noah's Flood, which is just a rather transparent knock-off of the Epic of Gilgamesh learned when they were captives in Babylon, the era when they first became literate and started writing their own myths.





Now, some classicist please correct the above as necessary; It's not my field.
It was probably a volcano%26amp; maybe tsunami from the earthquakes.
False. Atlantis has always been on the bottom of the ocean. The lizard people who live inside of the Earth also have some cities beneath the ocean floor.
False but I do have my own theories about it. I do believe that Atlantis did exist. I think it was destroyed in the Great Flood that all cultures talk about. I think those who survived the Flood, started their own cultures on other continents and or intergrated with the culture and society that was already established. I have no proof to back this up but it makes sense to me.
There is still no concensus about Atlantis.





The American mystic Edgar Cayce had much to say about it. There are several books about him.





The Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) in Virginia Beach, VA is based on Cayce's readings.
Yeah, no tangible proof. Like god, you know, yet many, many people believe THAT story. Senseless.
False
True, a meteor hit earth and caused havoc and a earthquake caused it to sink
True. I believe it did sink and that someday we'll find small parts of Atlantis somewhere near Greece or something.
their was a Atlantis and it sank when there was a big earthquake
falseness
False. The nave of the U.S, and many other country of the world with mavoes have explored about every inch of the terain down there, then the treasure hunters who search for ship wrecks have searched a food portion of the sea.





No trace of the island has ever been found. The island of Mu has never been found in the pacific either.
Trust mee its true
no one has ever found proof one way or another.
True, false, who knows? It makes for good stories. Just to throw this in there, if you're Irish, one theory says you might be an Atlantian. Plato was in and around Ireland at the time he wrote about the sinking, and during his stay, an Irish island called Dogger Bank was flooded by a very large wave. This may or may not have inspired the myth of Atlantis, but it's interesting to consider anyway.





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obviously false, how can it possibly be true???
You know thousands of years from now people will ask the same thing about New Orleans.
The ';fall'; of Atlantis was as much a real happening as it was a fall of belief. Atlantis, although a real place, is also as much an ideal. Atlantis also didn't sink. It was consumed by the ocean. That is up to interpretation but it is more likely that it was washed over rather than sunk.