ABSTRACT
In Marinatos’ mind, Atlantis was self-evidently Minoan Crete, its coastlands swamped by tsunamis sent out by the Thera eruption. If the Aegean location appeared strange when the classical Greek version of the story held that Atlantis was far to the west, then that would be explained by the story originating in Egypt, as Plato said. To the ancient Egyptians, Crete and the other Aegean islands were far to the west. In 1950, Marinatos wrote:
The Egyptians heard about the sinking of an island, which was Thera, but this island, small and insignificant, was unknown to them. This event they transferred to the neighbouring Crete, an island which was dreadfully struck and with which they had lost contact suddenly.
