Atlantis - The Antidermulian World

People didn't start taking Atlantis seriously as a place that might really exist until the 19th century. This American congressman in 1882 called Ignatius Donally published this scientific book, which is where we get all our ideas of Atlantis. It was a big bestseller and it's only ever since then that people believed it was real. So what did the people in Plato's time think Atlantis was about if it wasn't a real place? I'm thinking that Plato must have got his ideas from somewhere, right? Most ancient scholars would argue that what Atlantis is actually symbolising isactually the full of the Minoan civilisation. The Minoans were seen as not the anti-atheon