The story concludes with Atlantis falling out of favor with the deities and submerging into the Atlantic Ocean.ĭespite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature. In the story, Athens repels the Atlantean attack unlike any other nation of the known world, supposedly bearing witness to the superiority of Plato's concept of a state. Atlantis ( Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, romanized: Atlantìs nêsos, lit.'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in the Republic.
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