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Plato's Story Click on this icon to start or stop the narration. Plato is often used as the main source of information on Atlantis. An Egyptian priest told Solon, the law giver, the information about Atlantis. Plato then wrote about them in his two books, Critias and Timaeus. Around 350 BC, Plato wrote about a beautiful island in the Atlantic Ocean that went under the ocean waves in one day and one night. It took two books to describe the history and details of this almost magical island. For years, people have been looking for this mysterious lost city, Atlantis.