Did Ulysses Travel to Atlantis?
Good fiction imitates facts. Plato declared that his Atlantis tale is philosophical fiction invented to describe his fictitious ideal state in the case of war.
Was Atlantis a Bronze Age Metropolis in North Africa?
An often neglected detail is, Plato describes Atlantis to have ruled Libya as far as Egypt. That means Atlantis must have been located west of Libya and Libya itself must already have been part of the Atlantean territory.