As a popular myth, Atlantis is frequently featured in many books, television shows, movies and other creative works. Below is a partial listing of works where Atlantis is featured as a major part of the storyline.

Literature

• Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan series features a lost city known as Opar, said to be a colony of Atlantis.
  
• The book Romance of Atlantis by Taylor Caldwell.
  
• The book Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler, inspired by the non-fiction, When the Sky Fell by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath.
  
• Kara Dalkey's Water Trilogy is a blend of Atlantis and Arthurian legends.
  
• David Gemmell's fantasy novels make use of the Atlantean legends in the Jon Shannow series (Wolf of Shadow, The Last Guardian and Bloodstone) and the Stones of Power series (Ghost King and Last Sword of Power).
  
• The book Atlantis by David Gibbins.
  
• In Traci Harding's The Ancient Future Trilogy (Book 2 - An Echo in Time: Atlantis), Tory Alexander travels back in time to visit the lost city paradise of Atlantis, and its superior civilisation, where she is taught of the mind sciences and expands her psychic capabilities, and is inspired of a city plan which features in later books.
  
• In the short stories of Robert E. Howard, the character Kull was an Atlantean, and eventually became King of Valusia. His more famous character Conan the Cimmerian was descended from Kull's Atlanteans.
  
• In Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis, the fallen civilization of Atlantis is used as a metaphor for the ideals and aspirations of popular culture in the 1960s.
  
• In the Pendragon Cycle of Stephen R. Lawhead survivors of Atlantis settle in Britain.
  
• In Doris Lessing's Shikasta, it is briefly mentioned in the Canopean reports that due to natural disasters certain advanced cultures have suddenly been exterminated including the culture of "Adalanterland".
  
• In C.S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, Digory Kirke's uncle Andrew received a box from his dying godmother that contained dust from Atlantis that he used to make the magic rings that sent Digory and his friend Polly Plummer to the worlds of Charn and Narnia.
  
• Michael Moorcock's Melniboné is clearly inspired by Atlantis in that it is an ancient once-powerful island kingdom with a strained relationship with the gods and in a period of decline and decay. Both Melniboné and Atlantis are also described as having invincible navies.
  
• Edith Nesbit's The Story of the Amulet contains a chapter describing the fall of Atlantis.
  
• Stel Pavlou places Atlantis two miles under the ice in Antarctica in the adventure novel Decipher 2001.
  
• Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged has a place named Atlantis where John Galt and his friends reside.
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion includes the Akallabêth or Atalantë (The Downfall), the history of his version of Atlantis, the Island of Numenor or Westernesse, where the Númenóreans lived. (Aragorn of Lord of the Rings is descended from this people).
  
• Jacint Verdaguer's 1877 classic catalan poem L'Atlàntida.
  
• Jules Verne's classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine Nautilus.
  
• In Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy Hagbard Celine and crew travel to sites in submerged Atlantis. A portion of Atlantean history is also included in the book.
  
• The short story in a 2005 issue of Analog magazine titled "Adubon in Atlantis". In this story, which is an alternate history tale, Atlantis is not mythical at all, but is the result of the eastern seaboard breaking off of North America sometime during the formation of the continents.
  
• Theosophy by authors such as Blavatsky know of Atlantis as a lost continent which was sunk by the use of black magic in such works as the Secret Doctrine.
  
• Alexander Beliaev, famous Russian sci-fi writer, has depicted the last days of Atlantis in his novel "The Last Man From Atlantis" , the highlight of the book being love story of princess Sel and sculptor Adishirna.
  
• In "The Towers of February", the Dutch writer Tonke Dragt describes Atlantis as a country in the parallel world IMFEA (Inter Menses Februarium Et Aprilem).
  
• In "The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" Atlantis is given passing mention; it is revealed through a machine that can look into the past that Atlantis was a 'raft city' on the banks of the Red Sea, and was completely submerged when the water from the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans came over the natural dams.
  
• In Neal Stephenson's far-future novel "The Diamond Age" Atlantis is an Anglo-Saxon Great Phyle, mainly based on artificial islands but with enclaves elsewhere.
  
• A powerful slave-owning city that sinks and rises in an ocean very much like the Mediterranean is one of the main plot points in Duncan Thornton's book, Captain Jenny and the Sea of Wonders.
  
• KA Applegate's series of novels Animorphs featured one incident in which the small group pursue their alien enemies, the Yeerks, and inadvertantly find a hostile civilisation in a city at the bottom of the ocean. The civilisation, known as the Nartec, tell their own tail as to how they came to be under the sea, but although Marco jokingly suggests that the group have discovered Atlantis, the name never appears. After the Animorphs make their escape, the Nartec do not appear or are even mentioned in later novels, leaving their fate undetermined

Movies

• Atlantis is the subject of the 1961 film Atlantis, the Lost Continent.
  
• 1978's Warlords of Atlantis posits that there is not just one but seven cities of Atlantis.
  
• Atlantis is the central premise of Disney's 2001 animated feature Atlantis: The Lost Empire and is also featured in the 2003 sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return. It featured some of the ideas of Edgar Cayce in which ships and aircraft were powered by a form of energy crystal.
  

Television

• The Man from Atlantis was a made-for-TV movie and a short-lived (1977-1978) series on the NBC Network. It starred Patrick Duffy as Mark Harris, survivor of the lost continent of Atlantis, who could breathe underwater and endure the high pressures of the ocean depths.
  
• The SciFi series Stargate Atlantis in which Atlantis is an ancient city created by the 'Ancients' - a race of human like beings who are much more technologically and evolutionarily advanced than us (humans). Atlantis was moved from Earth to its final resting place in the Pegasus Galaxy, only to be submerged under a great ocean to protect it from the Ancients' enemies in Pegasus. Eventually the city was evacuated back to Earth through its Stargate, and their stories gave rise to the legends of Atlantis. 10,000 years later, a team of human explorers lead by the civilian, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travel to Atlantis via Earth's Stargate with a team of scientists and military personnel from all over the world to discover the secrets of the Ancients. (See Stargate SG-1)
  
• The British science-fiction series Doctor Who is renowned for presenting three different versions of Atlantis' ultimate fate. In the Patrick Troughton story The Underwater Menace (1967), the second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie discover on contemporary Earth that Atlantis still exists, near the Azores, and a reclusive scientist intends to raise it above the waves again. The Jon Pertwee serial The Time Monster (1972) concerns the plans of renegade Time Lord the Master to control Kronos, an ancient and powerful being worshipped by the Ancient Greek-style Atlanteans, while the third Doctor and Jo endeavour to stop him. Atlantis had also been also mentioned in the Jon Pertwee serial The Dæmons (1971), with the godlike being Azal citing its destruction as a warning of an experiment gone wrong. Some have argued that The Underwater Menace and The Time Monster depict the flooding and collapse, respectively, of different parts of Atlantis, not the destruction of the whole, so that all three accounts may fit into one coherent narrative. Alternatively, and since the geographical and temporal locations seem to be at odds, the name 'Atlantis' may be taken as a translation convention – a Time Lord gift always translating local languages for the Doctor and his companions – referring to different lost prehistoric civilisations.)
  
• In The Fairly OddParents, Cosmo has been known to sink the Lost City of Atlantis nine times and was known as "The Accursed One". When Timmy Turner, as a merperson with the powers of Wet Willie (an Aquaman parody superhero whose movie stunk), Cosmo, and Wanda explore underwater, they come upon Atlantis where it's people are now merpeople and when Cosmo is spotted, their leader King Greg plans to sentence Cosmo to be eaten by one of the Kraken that Atlantis owns. After showing King Greg the reasons they should be happy underwater (the Wet Willie movie persuaded him), Cosmo is no longer "The Accursed One". Unfortunately, a giant squid that Timmy tried to call to prove to the Atlanteans it existed had appeared and demolished Atlantis causing the Atlanteans to target Timmy ("The New Accursed One") now and the group escapes with some fish to "Clevelandlantis".
  
• In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, there is a terraforming project to create a new continent - called Atlantis - in the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Canadian coastline. The mythical Atlantis has also been mentioned twice elsewhere, both times as a comparison when the protagonists have discovered a utopian civilisation.
  
• In an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys entitled "Atlantis", Hercules finds himself washed ashore on that fabled land and has to contend with various crystal powered devices as well as Cassandra (Claudia Black) who has visions of impending doom for the island.
  
• In an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the turtles stumble upon an ancient underwater empire who later reveal themselves to be the long-lost Atlanteans.
  
• The GouGou Sentai Boukenger character Morio Makino is obsessed with finding Atlantis.
  

Manga & Anime

• In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, the main character Nadia is a descendant of the Atlanteans and the series main villains, the Neo-Atlantean empire, pretend to recover the lost Blue Water stones of Atlantis and use them to rule the world.
  
• Dartz, the main antagonist in the Yu-Gi-Oh! "Waking the Dragons" story arc is apparently from an Atlantis that was destroyed when all its inhabitants became their "True" evil selves after being exposed to a miracle substance known as "orichalcos".
  
• In Mysterious Cities of Gold, Atlantis goes to war with the Empire of Mu, over a trivial misunderstanding, and using powerful superweapons manage to destroy one another. Both become sunken continents.
  
• Transformers: Cybertron, an animated series based on a popular toyline, featured the lost continent of Atlantis as an ancient Cybertronian starship which, instead of floating in the water, floated in the atmosphere close to the ground. The location of Atlantis and an ancient Cybertronian artifact, the Omega Lock, was a major focus of the series' initial thirteen episode arc.
  
• In the Anime TV series The Vision of Escaflowne one of the main characters, Van, is said to have descended from the people of Atlantis. The people of Atlantis, also referred to as the Dragon People (ryuu-jin), were responsible for creating the mystical world of Gaea using the power of wishes, and the story of Escaflowne revolves largely around the leader of the empire Zaibach, Lord Dornkirk, attempting to regain that power. Note that the movie version of Escaflowne does not involve Atlantis in any way.
  

Comics

• In DC Comics, several characters, including Aquaman and Lori Lemaris - among others - are said to have come from a sunken Atlantis. Due to magic, they somehow survive with the ability to breathe water. Their capital, Poseidonis, was recently destroyed.
  
• In Marvel Comics, Atlantis was an ancient landmass which was home to a technoligically advanced civilization, but was sunk by the Celestials for hubris. Somehow, the Atlanteans also survived, and thrive under their king, Namor the Sub-Mariner
  
• In the Ultimate Marvel comics, Atlantis did exist and was home to an Ancient Egyptian culture. It was destroyed 9000 years ago under unknown circumstances.
  
• In his sprawling The Sandman series, Neil Gaiman has a chapter (in the Brief Lives story arc) called The People Who Remember Atlantis, and also speaks of "echo-Atlantises" and (many) other equatable prehistoric civilisations, exploring the theme of the bulk of human history and knowledge being lost to the modern world.
  
• In the webcomic Wigu, the Tinkle family as well as the head of the Illuminati are of Atlantian heritage.
  

Video games

• A LucasArts classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis recounts the fictional quest of Indiana Jones to the Lost World. (Supposedly, one of the possible titles for the fourth Indiana Jones film is Indiana Jones and the Lost Continent).
  
• Tomb Raider features a series of levels based in Atlantis.
  
• The Atlanteans, though not actually present in the games, played a large role in the first two Ecco the Dolphin games (Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time) as the creators of the time machine and the Glyphs. They also created the teleport rings present in Ecco: The Tides of Time.
  
• In Age of Mythology the first few levels of the campaign are set in Atlantis. Arkantos, the main character throughout the campaign, is Atlantean, and the civilsation worships Poseidon as its main god.
  
• In Age of Mythology: The Titans, the Atlanteans are one of the playable cultures. Unlike the other civilizations in the game, which were designed with a combination of mythology and history, the Atlanteans were not designed with any actual history in mind, because there wasn't any to have in mind. As result, what came out was a fantasy-like culture including Orichalkum walls and weapons, flamethrowing weapons and ships, and many other oddities. The hero of the story, Arkantos is Atlantean. Atlantis is featured at the beginning and ending of the story line.
  
• In the expansion pack Poseidon to Master of Olympus - Zeus, Atlanteans become a new playable civilzation in a serious of campaigns based loosely on the original material. It also tackles many of the more dubious claims about Atlantis (e.g. Atlanteans being involved with the building of the pyramids of both Egypt and Mesoamerica), albeit all with a rather humorous take.
  
• The games Atlantis: The Lost Tales, Beyond Atlantis and Beyond Atlantis II involve the legend. Atlantis takes place on the actual fabled city whereas the other two games are based on discovering things to do with Atlantis. all three games were made by Cryo Interactive.
  
• In The Journeyman Project 3: The Legacy of Time, aliens destroyed the entire city to prevent another alien race from obtaining a secret artifact.
  

Role-playing games

For a while Atlantis has been used in a varity of role playing websites, most taking after Stargate Atlantis, also known as the Ancients. The following are some sites that use Atlantis in role play:

• RPG Atlantis (not related to Stargate)
  
• In White Wolf Studio's Mage: The Awakening, Atlantis is depicted as the land where people initially come from, only to be trapped in the earthly realm due to the machinations of the Exarchs.
  
• In the d20 Modern Menace Manual, Atlantis was referenced as a large island in the Aegean Sea which used to be a permanent base for a race called the Fraal (another name for greys), in which Fraal and human society coexisted, but they retreated to the outer edges of the solar system when "some sort of accident" (sic) destroyed it, along with all trace of its inhabitants.
  
• In Rifts, Atlantis is a large continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that was tied to the magical energies of earth. As the magical energies of earth dissipated, the island disappeared into a dimensional limbo until the "Coming of the Rifts" caused a resurgence of magical energies on the planet. In the current Rifts timeline, the continent of Atlantis is ruled by extra-dimensional slave traders known as the Splugorth.

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