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Originally Posted by desert rat
Betazed home world of Deanna Tori . I think Atlantis was a real place.
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Atlantis was invented by Plato some time during the 16th century. There have since been several contenders of cities that had become completely flooded and lost to history, but since there were no records of these places before the 16th century and no evidence that Plato had access to information that no one else in the world did then it's a safe bet Atlantis was a made up island named after the Atlantic Ocean.
But, I don't think we should completely rule out ancestral memory. For example, many of the stories in the bible can be traced back 1000s of years before Jesus was born, for example the Great Flood was well known long before, and perhaps it was even the flood that buried the region that later inspired Atlantis.