According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).

Merlin was an Ancient, fleeing from Atlantis and later Ascends, then comes back in order build the Sangraal, or Holy Grail, to defeat the Ori.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors.

The Timaeus remained known in a Latin rendition by Calcidius through the Middle Ages, and the allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up by Humanists in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia.

According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fiction while others believed it was real.

Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's " Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, though they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

Tertullian believed Atlantis was once real and wrote that in the Atlantic Ocean once existed "( the isle ) that was equal in size to Libya or Asia " referring to Plato's geographical description of Atlantis.

Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century AD wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water:

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

According to Rudbeck, Atland means fatherland, and it was the original name of Atlantis.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Furthermore, she expressed the belief that it was Homer before Plato who first wrote of Atlantis.

William Scott-Elliot in The Story of Atlantis ( 1896 ) elaborated on Blavatsky's account, claiming that Atlantis eventually split into two linked islands, one called Daitya and the other Ruta, and that the latter was later reduced to a final remnant called Poseidonis.

Following the Columbia accident, NASA flew the STS-125 mission using Atlantis, combining the planned fourth and fifth servicing missions into one final visit to Hubble.

The USA cable network, however, funded a new and Canadian-filmed, fourth season of episodes, produced via the fledgling production company Atlantis and The Arthur Company owned by Arthur L. Annecharico in association with MCA, allowing the show to have enough episodes for syndication runs.

STS-79 Atlantis ( September 16 – 26, 1996 ), the fourth in the joint American-Russian Shuttle-Mir series of missions, launched from and returned to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

It was the 29th shuttle mission overall, and the fourth for Atlantis.

STS-36 was the 34th shuttle mission overall, the sixth flight for Atlantis, and the fourth night launch of the shuttle program.

STS-43, the ninth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a nine-day mission whose primary goal was launching the fourth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-E.

Tanner's fourth mission, STS-115 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on September 9, 2006.

The third root race, the first to be truly human, existed on the lost continent of Lemuria and the fourth root race developed in Atlantis.

She was then carried over as the leader of the Atlantis expedition on Stargate Atlantis and continued playing that role until the end of the show's third season, afterwards being reduced from a main cast member to a recurring role in the fourth season.

Blavatsky asserted humanity was presently in the fifth root race, the Aryan race, which Theosophists believe to have emerged from the previous fourth root race ( Atlantean root race ) beginning about 100, 000 years ago in Atlantis.

After Melissa's departure, Visions of Atlantis not only looked for a replacement for a singer, but also wrote the song material for the fourth album.

Lahana appeared in an episode of the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis, " Outcast " and as the waitress abducted by a serial killer on the third season episode of Psych.

Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis.

In October 2010 MeyGen, a consortium of Morgan Stanley, Atlantis Resources Corporation and International Power, received operational lease from the Crown Estate to a 400MW project for 25 years.

Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

* 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage ( IUS ) booster being deployed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis | Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission in October 1989.

Named after the Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

* 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission ( Atlantis ) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

* 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U. S. Space Shuttle program.

* 2011 – NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.

* 1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

* 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

" Dr. Julian Bashir ( Alexander Siddig ) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact and Dr. Phlox from Star Trek: Enterprise all use variations of the line, which has also made its way into many other shows such as Stargate Atlantis, Robot Chicken, Terra Nova, and Friends.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104 ) is a Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.