Other Records of Disaster

Pindar

Pindar tells a story that may reflect the Atlantian disaster. “I tremble at the heavy-sounding war between Zeus and Poseidon. Once with thunderbolt and trident they sent a land and a whole fighting force down to Tartarus, leaving my mother and all the well-fenced house” (p.120; Pindar, Paen IV, 27-44).

Deucalion's Flood

The Greek story of Deucalion’s Flood may reflect the tidal wave flooding of coastal cities caused by the eruption of Thera. It is said to happen about the same time as the Exodus from Egypt (See The Date of the Exodus).

The Argonauts

In the story of the Argonauts near Crete the bronze giant Talon threw stones at them, molten lead flowed out of him (Argonautica 4, 1694-1701). Could this be a reflection of a volcanic eruption? They sail north of Crete and encounter darkness (Argonautica 4, 1731-54). The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD produced a darkness. Pliny writes, “not a darkness of a moonless or cloudy night, but the total darkness of an enclosed space when lights have been extinguished” (p.150-51; Epistles VI, 20,14). Finally they sail on in calm weather, Euphemus throws overboard the clod of earth he received from Triton, and from it rose up the island Kalliste which was later called Thera. This might reflect the change in Thera after the eruption. The old island vanished and new islands formed. Mud made it unnavigable.

Floating Islands

Floating pumice would be all over the sea. There are other stories of floating islands like Asterie. In the Odyssey (10, 1-4) the island of Aeolus was a floating island with sheer cliffs and a wall of bronze which describes the volcanic islands of Lipari. The Egyptians have a floating island called Chemmis, but Herodotus said he never saw it move (II, 156). Hesiod in Theogony describes a tidal wave that is probably the result of a volcanic eruption (844-49). 

The Phaeacians

The Phaeacians in Odyssey may be the Minoans. Because they helped Odysseus Zeus would petrify one of their ships and shut in the city with a mountain (Odyssey 13, 125-177).

Diodor of Sicily also mentions Atlantis:

".. the Atlanteans, dwelling as they do in the regions on the edge of the ocean and inhabiting a fertile territory… Their first king was Uranus, and he gathered the human beings, who dwelt in scattered habitations, within the shelter of a walled city…" (the origin of the word Paradise, was of Iranian origin, meaning an enclosure to a park "PairidaAeza").

Assyrian sources seem to give a place in the Mediterranean, eg “the islands in the midst of the sea (apsu)”
 

Last part of Plato
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html

To his twin brother, who was born after him, and obtained as his lot the extremity of the island towards the Pillars of Heracles, facing the country which is now called the region of Gades in that part of the world, he gave the name which in the Hellenic language is Eumelus, in the language of the country which is named after him, Gadeirus. Of the second pair of twins he called one Ampheres, and the other Evaemon. To the elder of the third pair of twins he gave the name Mneseus, and Autochthon to the one who followed him. Of the fourth pair of twins he called the elder Elasippus, and the younger Mestor. And of the fifth pair he gave to the elder the name of Azaes, and to the younger that of Diaprepes. All these and their descendants for many generations were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the open sea; and also, as has been already said, they held sway in our direction over the country within the Pillars as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia. ….