Editing Atlantis (section)

==Notes==
:1.{{note|a}} Plato's contemporaries pictured the world as consisting of only Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia (see the map of [[Hecataeus of Miletus]]).
:2.{{note|b}} The [[frame story]] in ''[[Critias (dialogue)|Critias]]'' tells about an alleged visit of the Athenian lawmaker [[Solon]] (c. 638 BC – 558 BC) to Egypt, where he was told the Atlantis story that supposedly occurred 9,000 years before his time.
:3.{{note|c}}"As Smith discusses in the opening article in this theme issue, the lost island-continent was – in all likelihood – entirely Plato's invention for the purposes of illustrating arguments around Grecian polity. Archaeologists broadly agree with the view that Atlantis is quite simply 'utopia' (Doumas, 2007), a stance also taken by classical philologists, who interpret Atlantis as a metaphorical rather than an actual place (Broadie, 2013; Gill, 1979; Nesselrath, 2002). One might consider the question as being already reasonably solved but despite the general expert consensus on the matter, countless attempts have been made at finding Atlantis." ([http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/c.-Dawson-Hayward-Introduction-Shima-v10n2.pdf Dawson & Hayward, 2016])
:4.{{note|d}} Plato's ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' is usually dated 360 BC; it was followed by his ''[[Critias (dialogue)|Critias]]''.
:5.{{note|e}} Also it has been interpreted that Plato or someone before him in the chain of the oral or written tradition of the report, accidentally changed the very similar Greek words for "bigger than" ("meson") and "between" ("mezon").<ref name=Luce1969/>
:6.{{note|f}} The name is a back-formation from ''Gades'', the Greek name for [[Cadiz]].