What legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean was submerged and lost forever?

Answer 1

?Atlantis?

Answer 2

The Legend Of Atlantis

Answer 3

According to the story that Plato heard, it was Atlantis. Atlantis was supposedly the first great civilization. And perhaps the ancestors of the pre-indo europeans, or even the indo-europeans.
I believe Atlantis was a great civilization, their technology was equal to Rome. I don't think they were space-age advanced like some people seem to believe.

The civilization eventually fell due to immorality,it seems. Plato himself said Zeus and the other gods wanted to punish it. This is a parallel of the Roman Empire. In the end days of Rome, weird acts and barbaric practices were performed in their gods' temples. And their myths were making the gods more and more cruel. They didn't care about their native religion so much, that they just let Constatine and the Christians take over with little fight.

heres some wiki info.

Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "Island of Atlas") is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In Plato's account, Atlantis, lying "beyond the pillars of Heracles", was a naval power which conquered many parts of western Europe and Africa 9000 years before Plato's own time—approximately 9400 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune."

As a story embedded in Plato's dialogues, Atlantis is generally seen as a myth created by Plato to illustrate his political theories. Although the function of the story of Atlantis seems clear to most scholars, they dispute whether and how much Plato's account was inspired by older traditions. Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration of contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC.

The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was actively discussed throughout the classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied. While basically unknown during the Middle Ages, the story of Atlantis was rediscovered by Humanists at the very beginning of modern times. Plato's description inspired the utopian works of several Renaissance writers, like Francis Bacon's "New Atlantis". To this day, Atlantis inspires today's literature, from science fiction to comic books and movies, its name having become a byword for any and all supposed prehistoric but advanced (and lost) civilizations.


heres an amazing picture of atlantis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atlantis_picture.jpg

Answer 4

The Atlantis

Answer 5

The Crystal City of Atlantis! Causing the incidents in the Bermuda triangle.

Answer 6

Atlantis, Lemuria

Answer 7

Bani Bani, which was inhabited by white pygmies. It was discovered in 1981 when sir Arthur Fieldstone of the British Geographic Society sailed to the Azores and was run aground during a storm. It was found that what he hit was the remains of the capital city, Wasago Ati. Some have confused it with the lost city of Atlantis, which is not in the Atlantic, but is in the Aegean sea.

Answer 8

Atlantis.

Answer 9

Er, Atlantis.

Answer 10

Are you referring to Atlantis? If so, check out the following website:
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/Atlantis/index.html

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Answer 11

Atlantis,but it probably was Thera/Santorini in the Agean in the Bronze Age.