Was the story of Atlantis just an allegory invented by Plato, or is there evidence that the story had a pre-Platonic origin?

The story of Atlantis starts not with archaeologists or ancient ruins, but with a philosopher sitting in Athens around 360 BCE. Plato, one of history's most influential thinkers, introduced this ...

FOR the last three years I have been compiling a dictionary of Greek mythology, in which I set myself to record all versions of every myth and at the same time to account for them in historical or ...