Atlantis according to...

[Xander]

Plato

Plato was one of the first to mention the fabled city of Atlantis in two of his works: Timaeus and Critias. (Believe you me, they're pretty dry reading.)

Plato covered all the facts and figures. The city was composed of concentric circles of land and sea; there was the inner island, a middle ring, and an outer ring. The island was surrounded by a wall of orichalcum (which was supposedly a metal more precious than anything except gold), the middle ring a wall of tin, and the outer ring a wall of brass. There was a large, very fertile plain outside the city that ran from the sea to the mountains, and from it the Atlanteans grew anything their little hearts desired. Their kings were rich, the military was unmatched, the temples were works of art. Everyone was beautiful and sober. There were lots of animals. Even elephants. And then eleven thousand years ago, it was destroyed.

The annoying part is that just when Critias starts getting good and Zeus is about to smite down the whole city for becoming a bunch of vain and ungrateful louts, it ends. The work has been lost to history, just as Atlantis was lost to the world.

There has been much speculation about what happened to the text and what it was that Zeus really said.

Want to know my theory?
(Too bad, you're gonna get it anyway.)

My theory is that Plato's girlfriend, upon reading the stone tablet manuscript, beat him over the head with it, yelling, "You're such a man. Who cares about what color the stones were that they dug out of the ground? Who cares about the size of the army, or how many square feet the island was? Were there any women this city? What did they eat? Where did they live? How did they love?"... and then she promptly broke up with him.

[Xander]

Everyone Else

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Most of what Plato wrote about Atlantis is true. But what about the rest? There are powers so deep and dark buried with this lost continent that they make a mockery of all the pantheons that have come before or after it.

Got your popcorn? Sit back, and I shall enlighten you.

You already know some of it... but let me start at the beginning.
Atlantis is named after Atlantia, goddess and eldest sister of the ancient god Archon. With the help of Ydori (god of the Ocean) and Eda (goddess of the Earth), Archon created Atlantis as a gift for his wife Apollymi. Apollymi was so overcome by the gift that she wept, flooding the land and creating the rings of water.

You've learned by now the gods' penchant for the overdramatic.
Since Apollymi was barren, Archon, Ydor, and Eda created a race of people to live in Apollymi's gift: the Atlanteans. They were peaceful, despite their great army, and they were scholars. They were also psychic, and highly skilled in the uses of magic. They were beautiful and wealthy and perfect, and Apollymi probably flooded someplace else with her tears after their birth.

Who wouldn't be jealous?

Well, Zeus for one. Poseidon for two. Apollo for the charm. When Zeus cast out his son's too-perfect Apollites, the Atlanteans welcomed them, securing a place in Apollo's heart forever. They intermarried with the royal family, and future Atlanteans became his children as well.

You always hurt the ones you love.

As you know, the Atlantean queen became jealous when Apollo fathered a son on the Greek princess Ryssa, so she ordered the son and mother killed. For this, 'Apollo' destroyed Atlantis (or so he says), and cursed all the Apollites.

Words have power. Actions speak louder than words. Vengeance is not to be treated lightly... and neither are the gods.
Here endeth the lesson.

[aristo]

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