![]() For as the Olympieium in the city of Athens, so the tale of the lost Atlantis in the wisdom of Plato is the only one among many beautiful works to remain unfinished." (Plutarch, Parallel Lives Solon 32.1-2).Ītlantis was a large island in the Atlantic Ocean which lay in front of the mouth of the pillars of Heracles (straits of Gibraltar). Therefore the greater our delight in what he actually wrote, the greater is our distress in view of what he left undone. But he was late in beginning, and ended his life before his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Plato, ambitious to elaborate and adorn the subject of the lost Atlantis, as if it were the soil of a fair estate unoccupied, but appropriately his by virtue of some kinship with Solon, began the work by laying out great porches, enclosures, and courtyards, such as no story, tale, or poesy ever had before.
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