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Excerpt from The : Timaeus Critias says : Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded
of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in
greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which
unprovoked, made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and
to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic
Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an
island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars
of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and
was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole
of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea
which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow
entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be
most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis
there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island
and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore,
the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns
of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Italy).
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