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Question 1:
We owe the name and the concept of Atlantis to Plato. It was first mentioned in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, where he claims to be reporting a conversation that had taken place between his ancestor, Solon, and an Egyptian priest. The dialogues tell us the overwhelming of a culture by acatastrophe which by modern chronology would have occurred about 9600 BC, at the end of the last Ice Age._____ . Therefore, it’s hard for archaeologists to believe that it’s fictitious and this has given rise to a host of speculations about where Atlantis might have been and even to expeditions aiming to discover , vestiges of the civilisation itself.
A. Neverthless, the story doesn’t appeal to thelogical reader
B. Atlantis was said to have been under the AtlanticOcean in the accounts of Plato
C. In the dialogues, epic voyages in primitive craftproved that they could have sailed immense distances simply by drifting with the current
D. Atlantis was destroyed by a group of primitivehuge creatures which had human intelligence but abody of a monster

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