Abstract
The article attempts to discover a basis in fact, historical and geological, for the myth of Atlantis. Since scholars are mostly agreed that there never was within historical times a great island in the Atlantic to which the story could refer, it remains to seek behind Plato’s account a real island and a real people in the Mediterranean which could have been known to the Egyptian priests mentioned by Plato. Frost, Brandenstein, Marinatos and others have argued for Crete and its Minoan civilization as the historical original. It is suggested that the physical damage caused by the great eruption of Thera about 1500 B. C. to Thera and to Crete and its culture is the basis, to which later material was added from the period of the Peoples of the Sea, whose migrations trew the eastern Mediterranean into confusion. If the story was really Egyptian, it would not occur to Greeks to refer it to Crete when they were ignorant both of the eruption of Thera and of Minoan civilization in its true nature.
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