The issue of when Atlantis supposedly existed has a huge impact on identifying it with a real civilisation. What does the ...

Although many historians agree that Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis were purely fictitious — meant only to illustrate the larger point in his works Critias and Timaeus — this hasn’t ...

“WE must endeavour,” wrote Plato in the “Timæus”, “to construct the four forms of bodies which excel in beauty, and then we shall be able to say that we have sufficiently appre hended ...