Note: - This is an English translation of an excerpt from Plato's writings. The date of the translation and name of the translator are undocumented. - From August Derleth's introduction to this excerpt in Beyond Time & Space: "The Timaeus and Critias both contain references to Atlantis, though the authorship of the Critias is sometimes challenged; from these works stem all the lost-continent, last-man narratives in the genre of fiction, and on Plato's reference hangs the entire legend of Atlantis ...." - From Chapter 1 of L. Sprague de Camp's book Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature: "About the year 355 B.C. Plato wrote two Socratic dialogues, Timaios and Kritias, wherein he set forth the basic story of Atlantis." - This excerpt begins, "Critias: Listen then, Socrates, to a tale which though passing strange is yet wholly true ...."