I’ve chased enough myths to know the trick is usually the same: a real event or place gets twisted by the storytellers around it. The Greeks had a real city—perhaps Miletus or a part of Crete—that sank, and Plato turned that into a lesson about hubris. Every lost city turns into a story that hides what actually happened. I keep looking for the original clues, then I strip the embellishment. It’s like peeling a newspaper’s front page. The truth is buried in the mundane, and the legend is the headline. So yes, Atlantis probably started with a fact, but the story grew up around it like a myth‑tide.