Okay, kids. (And by "kids" I mean geologists and mythologists.)

[chandri]

Here's a question for all you rock and myth-buffs. I won't elaborate too much, because it will be confusing, but: Plato says Atlantis sank in approx. 9500 BC. As this is inconvenient to the founding origin-myth for my Paxverse, I have decided that Plato heard about it second or third-hand, and then twisted the story for his political ends (not

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[nute]

Except a flood can't "sink" an island. A flood is specifically rivers or standing bodies of water overflowing their banks. If the ocean does it, it's a tidal surge. To make an island disappear, you'd need a major earthquake/volcanic event. Could be that Atlantis was an island formed around a volcano whose caldera collapsed underwater after a huge eruption. There's enough of those recorded in that time period that would possibly work.

[chandri]

Nonono, I mean that the sinking of the island would have caused a flood, or at least a big wave that would have been interpreted as one. In the Paxverse there's a geologic catastrophe that sinks the island, and no one ever really knows about it except that the water level rises dramatically for a time... and yes, there's plenty of floods, I'm just having trouble picking one. :)

Especially as I've now been distracted by Italo-Celtic phylogenetic theory, again. Which I shouldn't even be reading about, just now. *sigh*

[nute]

Oh! Well, again, it wouldn't be a flood so much as a massive tidal surge. An island isn't going to displace a lot of water, although what causes it could have the secondary effect of a tsunami.