WHAT WAS THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS BASED ON?
We would love to say that the tale of the legendary island lost to the sea was based on real evidence, dredged from the ocean floor or still preserved underwater. But there’s just no proof that Atlantis existed, until Aquaman appears and proves us wrong.
The origins of the legend is in the writings of one of history’s pioneering philosophers: Plato. Across two dialogues, Timeaus and Critias, written in the mid-4th century BC, the Athenian brainbox described a powerful, wealthy and scientifically advanced civilisation on an island in the Atlantic Ocean “outside the Pillars of Hercules”, which was the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.