Plato definitively located Atlantis as outside the pillars of Hercules. And he ought to know, since he made it up.
As in other of his writings, Plato made overt and exlicit use of myths and stories as instructional aids, especially for communicating moral lessons to children, which is the context in which the Atlantis story is put in the mouth of Timaeus.
It's a lot of fun to imagine a great ancient city lost beneath the waves, but that's all it is. The fact remains, there was no record of the Atlantis myth anywhere, ever, in any language, before Plato's stories.
It is a better thing to cultivate wonder at the mysteries of the real world, rather than to besot the imagination with idle fantasies...
There were many.
So don't base your concept of reality on old stories. I hope you see the irony that you are indeed doing that -- just as you tell others not to. There's no need to feel threatened when evidence arises that changes how we see the world and the past. It happens every day and we don't want you to have a heart attack!
That's right, because there is no use imagining what Troy was like. And heaven knows that Hissilick where Dergfeld (sp?) and Schliemann dug could not be Troy, because there was no mention of Troy before Homer and Homer just made all that wacky stuff up to sell books and make money. It was like a Spielberg production.
Might as well toss Herodotus and Thucydides out as sources too. I mean what over active imaginations? No one wrote about some fabled Persian invasion of Greece before... and mice eating the Persian bowstrings? Man, it's all fantasy. We should just focus on what's on now. Where's the remote control?
They called Henrich Schleimann an idiot for using Homer's The Illiad as a guide to finding Troy.....until he found it. Then, they called him brilliant.