Is it possible that we will ever find it? Or, more importantly: Did it even exist? The short answer to both: No. All available evidence indicates that the philosopher Plato, sometime around 360 B.C., invented the island nation in order to illustrate a point about the dangers of aggressive imperialism.

In Plato’s telling, Atlantis was no utopia. Rather, it was a foil for an idealized version of Athens from long before Plato’s time. This ancient Athens “was very similar to Plato’s notion of the ideal state,” says Jyl Gentzler, a professor of philosophy at Amherst College. Plato laid out the details for what such a state would look like in his famous work, The Republic.

According to Gentzler, it should be small and virtuous, and reject ostentation. The residents of Atlantis, on the other hand, were eventually “filled with an unjust lust for possessions and power,” according to Plato’s character who described the island.

The quest for the lost Atlantis has fascinated people for thousands of years. So much so that provide it was a real island, one is left to ponder, where was the lost city of Atlantis supposed to be?

In Plato’s texts, Atlantis was “larger than Libya and Asia combined,” (which, in Plato’s time, would have referred to modern-day northern Africa and over half of Turkey). It was situated in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere outward from the Strait of Gibraltar. It’s a landmass large enough that, if it really existed somewhere underwater in the Atlantic, it would certainly appear on sonar maps of the ocean floor.

So how did Atlantis come to represent a lost utopic civilization? For that, you can mostly blame (or thank) Ignatius Donnelly. In 1882, the former U.S. Congressman published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. The book laid out 13 hypotheses, centered on the idea that Atlantis had truly existed, and indeed represented a place “where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace and happiness.”

According to Donnelly, Atlantis was the original source of many ancient civilizations around the world. If one followed the clues in Plato’s writing, Donnelly believed, mankind could have found Atlantis. “It would be hard to overstate the impact that this introductory chapter to Donnelly’s book had on future Atlantology,” wrote Mark Adams in his 2015 book, Meet Me in Atlantis: Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City. “It gave this sort of template that people could start to follow in decades to come,” he says.

Donnelly was inspired, says Adams, by a remarkable discovery in the early 1870s. An amateur archaeologist had used Homer’s The Iliad to purportedly unearth the legendary city of Troy. If Troy, long thought to be fictional, was real, why shouldn’t Atlantis be, too?

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