The Atlantis Poem in the Timaeus-Critias

Plato, in the Timaeus, links the story about Atlantis with a noble tradition that Solon discovered near the Nile Delta. In the Critias, Plato refers to the idea that Solon was planning to write a poem about Atlantis and also suggests that the poem was to be based on a written record. But l’existence of a poem about Atlantis is not plausible. Plato brings out, so, the relationship between the Atlantis story and the facts of the past, between his family and the enquiry of Socrates and between the story about Atlantis and the literary production.