Index Record
Atlantis — Plato’s Timaeus and Critias
Kircher’s early modern map supplies a concrete historical image of Atlantis as a remembered and mapped lost place. It illustrates the later Atlantis tradition without being presented as archaeological evidence that Atlantis existed.
Conventional Reading
Plato’s Timaeus and Critias are the classical literary sources for the Atlantis tradition. The dialogues present Atlantis as a lost polity in a narrative placed in the distant past; this record uses those passages as the documented source field for the later lost-kingdom motif.
Geomytha Reading
Geomytha reads Atlantis as the kingdom projected backward: unity becomes a lost object in the past, and the seeker can turn remembrance itself into identity. The mechanism is not simply loss but the claimant converting wholeness into archaeology.
Parent work / tradition / source
Plato, Timaeus and Critias
Source location / reference
Plato, Timaeus 25 and Critias 108–113, trans. W. R. M. Lamb, Perseus Digital Library.
Reading Boundary
This record does not claim that Atlantis has been historically or archaeologically proven, nor that Plato intended Geomytha’s grammar. The Platonic passages establish the literary tradition; Geomytha’s reading of lost unity projected backward is an interpretive use of that tradition.
Source trail
Evidence beneath the record
Plato, Timaeus and Critias — Atlantis passages (Perseus)
Primary literary source for what Plato’s dialogues say about Atlantis. It supports the documented textual tradition; Geomytha’s symbolic use of Atlantis as projected lost unity is interpretive.
Perseus Digital Library / Tufts University