City Of Atlantis

According to Merrian-Webster, a utopia is a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions. The Lost City of Atlantis was a real city that sank into the ocean in 9600 B.C. Plato’s records of the city, other scientists’ research, and the discovery of an underwater city a mile under the ocean all prove that this utopian society existed centuries ago. Plato describes the Lost City of Atlantis as a utopia, one that had a perfect republic and held the key to world peace. Atlantis was an extremely advanced city, with its amazing architecture and incredibly fertile land that fed the entire community. This lost city sank deep into the ocean right off the Coast of Cuba and on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle due to natural
He describes it in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias. He explains that he heard of this fascinating city from his grandfather. “Plato’s Critias says he heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who had heard it from the Athenian statesman Solon (300 years before Plato’s time), who had learned it from an Egyptian priest, who said it had happened 9,000 years before that.” (History.com Staff, 2010) Although Plato was the first written record of Atlantis, there were people even before him that can recall the lost city. He was not the only believer; in 1627 English philosopher and scientist, Francis Bacon also published works that mention the utopia. He describes Atlantis in his novel The New Atlantis as a politically and scientifically advanced society. The two philosophers were not alone in believing and publishing works about Atlantis; former US congressional representative Ignatious L. Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Donnelly’s book contained theories that were popularized and incorporated into modern
Atlantis was exceedingly fertile and the citizens grew their own food and reared their own animals. The island was not only the size of a city but was an entire continent all its own. “Most of us probably think of a lush green island surrounded by deep blue ocean waters when we picture Atlantis. While the story focuses on the island, most of us probably assumed that Atlantis was no more than this. But Plato tells us that Atlantis was actually an empire ruled from this island.” (Roh, 2017) Atlantis was also home to the most beautiful buildings and other architectural structures one would not believe. Although the city was so developed and cutting edge, it stood no match to Mother Nature. Atlantis sank deep into the ocean due to natural disasters ranging from earthquakes, to tsunamis, to floods. “Ballard says, the legend of Atlantis is a "logical" one since cataclysmic floods and volcanic explosions have happened throughout history, including one event that had some similarities to the story of the destruction of Atlantis. About 3,600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption devastated the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea near Greece. At the time, a highly advanced society of Minoans lived on Santorini. The Minoan civilization disappeared suddenly at about the same time as the volcanic eruption.” (Drye, n.d.) Believing that a city that once