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ATLANTIS, ATALANTIS, or ATLANTICA, a legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato in the Timaeus. Plato describes how certain Egyptian priests, in a conversation with Solon, represented the island as a country larger than Asia Minor and Lib ...

ATLANTA, the capital and the largest city of Georgia, U.S.A., and the county-seat of Fulton county, situated at an altitude of 1000-1175 ft., in the N.W. part of the state, near the Chattahoochee river. Pop. (1860) 9554; (1880) 37,409; (1890) 65,533; («ooo) 89

ATLAS, in Greek mythology, the " endurer," a son of the Titan lapetus and Clymene (or Asia), brother of Prometheus. Homer, in the Odyssey (i. 52) speaks of him as " on; who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars which hold heaven and ear

ATALANTA, in Greek legend, the name of two Greek heroines, (i) The Arcadian Atalanta was the daughter of lasius or lasion and Clymene. At her birth, she had been exposed on a hill, her father having expected a son. At first she was suckled by a she-bear, and t

... egends which describe an earthly Paradise in the Western or Atlantic Ocean (see ATLANTIS). Few of these survived after the exploration of the Atlantic by Columbus, Vasco da Gama and others in the 1 5th century; but in literature More's Utopia set a new fashion ...