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 | | The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time, which would be well into the most recent ice age. |
 | | The geographer Strabo locates the two mythical islands of the Odyssey, Ogygia (inhabited by Circe) and Scheria (inhabited by the Phaeacians) in the Atlantic Ocean (Geography 1.2.18). |
 | | Most of the historically proposed locations are in or near the Mediterranean Sea, either islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Cyprus, Malta, and Ponza or as land based cities or states such as Troy, Andalucia or Tantalus (in the province of Manisa), Turkey, and the new theory of Israel-Sinai or Canaan as possible locations. |
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