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SUMMARY 33 beyond the Pillars of Hercules and the peoples about the Mediterranean; and finally the reflection of the Persian war on the shadowy ancient past of Athens—Athens the defender and victor, Athens the Queen of the Sea. Every solution of the Atlantis problem must be conjectural. The above is offered simply as the best conjecture to which I can see my way