Timeline of Atlantis Story

By Dhani Irwanto, 25 May 2016

From the Timaeus Sections 23e and 24a: “She founded your city a thousand years before ours, receiving from the Earth and Hephaestus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in our sacred registers to be eight thousand years old. As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago, I will briefly inform you of their laws and of their most famous action …”

From the Critias Section 108e: “… nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them …”

From the Critias Sections 111b and 111c: “Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed since the time of which I am speaking; and during all this time and through so many changes, there has never been any considerable accumulation of the soil coming down from the mountains, as in other places, but the earth has fallen away all round and sunk out of sight.”

Based on the above narratives, the timeline of Atlantis story is made as below.

1. Sometimes before 10,000 years before Solon – the “Athens” was founded
2. Sometimes before 9,000 years before Solon – the “Egyptians” was founded
3. Shortly before 9,000 years before Solon – the regions from “Libya” as far as “Egypt” and “Europe” as far as “Tyrrhenia” were conquered by Atlantis
4. 9,000 years before Solon – a war between Atlantis and the “Athens” took place
5. 8,000 years before Solon – the Egyptians recorded their sacred registers
6. Between 9,000 years before Solon and Solon’s time – many great deluges and land subsidence took place
7. About 600 BC – the Egyptian priests told story about Atlantis to Solon
8. About 360 BC – Plato wrote Timaeus and Critias

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