In 1885 the first connections between Thera and Plato's legend of the Lost Atlantis, that virtuous island which had sunk under the sea in a single night, were made by Auguste Nicaise in a lecture ...

8. The city was destroyed by a huge volcano The idea that the island of Santorini (or Thera) is the real Atlantis gained popularity in the 1960s. Excavations revealed that a society similar to the ...

linked to the catastrophic eruption of the Thera volcano around 1600 BCE. Alternatively, some scholars argue that Atlantis was purely allegorical, a tale to illustrate the dangers of hubris and ...