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.

Mate-Demate Device | STS Program mate / de-mate facility for STS Orbiter and STS Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1991 )

In Critias, Plato claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC.

Critias mentions an allegedly historical tale that would make the perfect example, and follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias.

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

The 1882 publication of Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly stimulated much popular interest in Atlantis.

Theosophists believe the civilization of Atlantis reached its peak between 1, 000, 000 and 900, 000 years ago but destroyed itself through internal warfare brought about by the inhabitants ' dangerous use of magical powers.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )

Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

Hyperborea, which is a lost continent of the Miocene period, and Poseidonis, which is a remnant of Atlantis, are much the same, with a magical culture characterized by bizarreness, cruelty, death and postmortem horrors.

* 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.

In the Canadian-American military science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and later in the series Stargate Atlantis, Daedalus is the name for the second interstellar and first intergalactic spaceship built by Homeworld Security.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

She argues that Bacon's movement for the advancement of learning was closely connected with the German Rosicrucian movement, while Bacon's New Atlantis portrays a land ruled by Rosicrucians.

They researched various mysteries for inspiration, particularly stories centered around the mythical land of Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle.

The plot meanders around the globe to such far-flung locations as Las Vegas ( where a potentially deadly, secret U. S. government-developed mutated anthrax epidemic has been accidentally unleashed ); Atlantis ( where Howard, the talking porpoise, and his porpoise aides help Hagbard battle the Illuminati ); Chicago ( where someone resembling John Dillinger was killed many years ago ); and to the island of Fernando Pó ( the location of the next great Cold War standoff between Russia, China and the USA ).

According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.

The plot is set in the fictional Indiana Jones universe and revolves around the eponymous protagonist's global search for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis.

This solid-rocket was used in May 1989 to propel the spacacraft from Orbiter Atlantis on a 15-month loop around the Sun and eventually into orbit around Venus for four years of radar surface-mapping.

* In Stargate Atlantis third season episode " The Ark ", Colonel Sheppard's team discovers a facility inside a hollowed-out moon that turns out to be an ark created by the people of the planet around which the moon is in orbit.

The plan was that The Sentinel would be a recorded version of The Atlantis Suite, an epic centrepiece of the band's live performances at the time based around a futuristic version of the story of Atlantis, with plenty of references to the Cold War.

Ritter will be seen alongside Kate French in the upcoming short film, Atlantis, a romance film centered around two strangers who fall in love during the preparation for the final launch of the NASA space shuttle Atlantis.

Isle of Tranquility followed Ecco around until he managed to get to the dolphin city of Atlantis ( apparently different from the Atlantis of legend ) and repair the Guardian.

In the epilogue, Ecco is seen swimming around with other dolphins in the ' Atlantis Lost ' level, and the restored Guardian has created a crystal dolphin statue to commemorate his quest.

Max, Virgil, and Norman, his Viking bodyguard ( he is three times larger than Max ), travel together around the world, defending Earth against the minions of Skullmaster, who is responsible for the downfall of both the Lemurians and the people of Atlantis.

Several scenes in the London part of the narrative take place in and around Paul Brunton's famous occult bookstore, The Atlantis Bookshop.

In regular use are the transporters to move people and objects around the city and the Puddle Jumpers docked in Atlantis.

When the next opportunity came to cast the spell around 1 AD, Varnae attempted to mystically raise Atlantis, but Aamshed foiled his plans.

Georgia first went to Earth to finish Mary Marvel, after Sivana said he was going after Captain Marvel, and Jr going after Jr. Sivana Jr., and Georgia constituted the super-villain group Sivana Family, the evil counterpart to the Marvel Family ( first group appearance: The Marvel Family # 10 ( April 1947 ), where they time travel to Ancient, Modern, and Future Atlantis after gaining access to the Rock of Eternity using faster-than-light spaceships, and attempt to steal materials to make a machine which can prevent the Marvels calling their lightning down by creating a barrier around Earth which deflects the lightning, and succeed in capturing, binding and gagging all the Marvels though releasing them to mock them, although the Marvels stop this when they break into the lab and turn off the machine, then capture the unsuspecting Sivanas ).

Licensed in 1994, Showcase was a venture between Alliance Communications ( prior to its merger with Atlantis ), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and a number of smaller independent Canadian producers, and was intended to be a showcase for " the best of independently-produced movies, drama, comedy and mini-series from Canada and around the world ", with limited content from the United States.

The Ancients ( known as " Ancestors " to the denizens of Pegasus, " Lanteans " to the Wraith ) submerged the city around 8, 000 BCE to evade Wraith detection and returned via stargate to Earth, where survivor recollections formed the basis for the ancient Greek accounts of Lost City of Atlantis.

Not that they're allowed much time to do that ; as the Martian Manhunter telepathically learns, the gorillas are strategically targeting several places around the globe, including Themyscira ( Wonder Woman's homeland ), Atlantis ( Aquaman's kingdom ), Central City, Blüdhaven ( a suburb of Batman's Gotham City ), Metropolis ( where Superman lives, one of the largest cities in the DC Universe ), and low Earth orbit ( Green Lantern's ).

Many rumors went around over the years, saying that a proposed attraction based on the Disney animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire was going to replace Submarine Voyage.