While the story focuses on the island, most of us probably assumed that Atlantis was tied to this island. But Plato tells us that Atlantis was actually an island-ruled empire. “Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire ruling over the whole island and many others, and over parts of the continent, and, moreover, the men of Atlantis had subdued the parts of Libya within columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia”. Tirrenia is another name for Etruria, today known as central Italy. This means that Atlantis would have conquered Europe as far as modern-day Tuscany, and North Africa as far as Egypt. I would like to know how did Athens beat such a large empire? Maybe Plato didn't have any idea either, so he stopped writing the