<p>Plato's 'Critias,' one of his later and unfinished dialogues, weaves a tale of a prehistoric, utopian island civilization?Atlantis. Although the narrative is abruptly truncated, the work captures the nuanced interplay of character and ideology, characteristic of Plato's philosophical style. Set against the larger body of his work, 'Critias' presents a speculative history linking the Atlantis myth to his recurrent themes of ideal states and the...