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Plato portrayed Atlantis as playing host to a powerful and progressive society. The city was also portrayed as being home to an array of plants and animals, including elephants. The ancient Greek scribe described Atlantis as an Eden-like environment brimming with natural resources, mountains, and exotic fruit. The origin of the Atlantis fable can be traced all the way back to 360 BCE when the lost city appeared in two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. Because the gods grew increasingly unhappy with the vanity, greed, and corruption dominating the society of Atlantis legend has it that 9,000 years ago, in an effort led by Zeus, the Greek gods sunk Atlantis as punishment for its aggression, hubris, and misbehavior. The fabled city, which supposedly occupied a sizable landmass, was inhabited by a civilization that routinely waged wars against those neighboring communities occupying the eastern areas skirting the Mediterranean Sea. He made his son Atlas the king and named the city after him, as well as the ocean around it, hence the Atlantic Ocean. The name Atlantis is derived from the ancient Greek term for "island of Atlas."Ītlantis was mythologized to have been founded by Poseidon, the Greek god of the seas. According to legend, Atlantis was populated by an advanced society which perished after the island subcontinent was submerged beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean somewhere past the Pillars of Hercules (assumed to be the Strait of Gibraltar). The lost city of Atlantis has long been an engrossing mystery, and the subject of much public speculation, conjecture, and wonder.