[newguy357]

Many, many years ago I read (and still have) a book by Charles Berlitz called Atlantis: The Lost Continent. It suggests a few possible sites for the lost land, and it convinced me that Atlantis once existed (whether it was a continent or a island nation). I am still amazed at how scholars and historians use Plato as a reference for so much yet dismiss his account of Atlantis.

That's because the stuff that Plato is used for today (political theory, mainly) is based on reason. Reason was valid then and still is today. His account of Atlantis may or may not be true, but it is not based on reason, but on what even he acknowledged to be legend, from thousands of years prior to even his time.

[MichiganMan]

What I’ve read is that Atlantis was an imaginary city state Plato used as an analogy of Athens and its Navy. I forget the particulars.