While the story focuses on the island, most of us probably just assumed that Atlantis was connected to this island. But Plato tells us that Atlantis was actually an empire ruled from the island. "Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which ruled over the whole island and several others, as well as over parts of the continent, and, moreover, the men of Atlantis had subjugated the parts of Libya lying in the columns of Atlantis to Egypt, and of Europe to Tyrrhenia is another name for Etruria. Central Italy. This means that Atlantis would have conquered Europe as far as present-day Tuscany and North Africa as far as Egypt. I would like us to know how Athens defeated such a large empire. that Plato had no idea either, so he stopped writing the