Many people are familiar with the story of Atlantis but don’t know that Plato invented it. It is one of Plato’s most enduring contributions to culture. The point of the story was to illustrate the way that virtue would defeat vice and that a virtuous group of people would defeat an evil imperial superpower. But what about the idea that it was intended as a piece of history and that Atlantis actually existed? Check out this post to learn more about Plato’s Atlantis. :)