Atlantis has never stopped returning. Francis Bacon imagined it as a utopian scientific society in his 1627 work New Atlantis. Thomas More drew from its spirit in Utopia. Countless artists, architects, and philosophers have reached for it as a vessel for their own visions of what human civilisation could be — or should have been.

That is the true power of the allegory: beyond what Plato intended, it became what each generation finds inside it. A mirror that reflects differently depending on who is looking.