The "Lost" City of Atlantis

Atlantis
From Plato

Where?

Based in the Atlantic Ocean - Opposite the Pillars of Heracles (Straits of Gibraltar)
The Atlantic was then navigable
Larger than Libya and Asia combined
From Atlantis you could reach other islands and then a true continent

What Did It Look Like?

Canal From Sea

Canal 300' wide, 100' deep
50 stades from the sea was a hill where the rings of Sea and Land were built (5.5 miles)

Inner Ring

Next ring of water was 1 stade - 600'
Center land was 5 stades in diameter - 3000' (.5 miles)
Surrounded on both sides by a wall covered with orichalcum

Middle Ring

Next set of water / land rings were 2 stades in width - 1200'
Surrounded on both sides by a wall covered with tin

Outer Ring

Ring closest to sea and its internal land both 3 stades in width - 1800'
Surrounded on both sides by a wall covered with brass
Contained horse racing track

Outer Wall

Wall which circled the outer ring at a distance of 50 stades (11 miles in diameter)

Bridges

Bridges were 100 feet wide (a sixth of a stadia)
Walled
Towers and gates on the bridges
Guarded at either end

Plain

Oblong, 3000 stadia long, 1000 stadia wide (330 miles long and 110 miles wide)
Open to the sea on the south (where the canal exited to the sea)
Surrounded by mountains to the north

Ditch around the Plain

100 feet deep
1 stade wide
10,000 stade long (surrounding the whole plain) (1100 miles long)

Military

Plain consisted of 10 stade square lots - 1.1 mile x 1.1 mile

1.1 miles = 5808 ft there we get 33,732,864 sq. ft = 774.4 acres
acre = 43560 sq. ft or 4840 sq. yd.
for total of 60,000

total acres = 46,464,000

Each lot supplied

1/6 of a war chariot
2 horses and riders
one pair of chariot horses, a horseman, and a charioteer
2 heavily armed soldiers
2 slingers
3 stone shooters
3 javelin men
4 sailors (for fleet of 1200 ships)

Miscellaneous

5 sets of Twins - Atlas was first King
Fruits hard to store but providing drink, food & oil
They governed other land into Egypt and Tyrrhenia
2 harvests - one from winter rains - one from summer irrigation
Orichalc, a metal unknown to Plato was mined in quantities - 2nd in value to gold
Abundant timber, elephants, marshes, swamps, rivers, mountains, plains
Hot and cold springs
Stone was white, black, and yellow - stone was excavated from center island and land rings to form covered docking areas

The unit of measurement given in translation of Timaeus and Critias is typically the stade or stadia. The conversion is: 1 stade = 607 ft or 185 meters (mile = 5280 feet so 1 stade = .11 mile)
So What Happened? What Of The Atlantians?

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