New Findings on Santorini Point to "Lost Island of Atlantis" Origins

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5. it fits some and doesn't fit the rest

Plato likely invented a lot of it and the whole story he got was muddled beyond repair. He also called it a rival of Athens and the timeline for that is wrong. That's the problem with a lot of eastern Mediterranean oral history, it suffered greatly for retelling with embellishment in wine bars by traveling merchants playing to a foreign crowd.

I've always thought Santorini was the best candidate for that legend. Akrotiri was abandoned before the climactic eruption. Likely there had been phreatic eruptions for months before the volcano blew itself apart and there were survivors who had traveled either upland or inland beyond the reach of the tsunami that followed, and they were the basis for the legend.