“To believe that Atlantis was drowned merely by the wrath of angry sea gods and the weight of its own hubris is to swallow the self-satisfied propaganda of those later empires who knew, even in their ascendance, that they were lesser in every measure. To speak of Atlantis in tones of cautionary ruin—decay, pride, and divine retribution—is to trust the scrolls of its enemies… and of peoples it had once conquered, civilized, or crushed. Such tales serve not truth, but comfort; they recast the fall of greatness as a moral fable, to soothe the pride of those who could not match its majesty.”

– Gallus Nia, “On the Vanity of Lesser Histories,” Minor Essays Vol. III, Ptolemides Historical Archives.