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A surprising and statistically significant match can be found, if only a few of Plato´s concepts -anyway idealistic or already rendered unrealistic- are discarded. Plato´s Atlantis legend has been scrutinized for possible historic roots related to Minoan Thera and the cataclysmic Minoan eruption ca 1625 BC, using the hypothetical, but independently resurrected Minoan landscape virtual model as a template.

the topography of the Hades entrance may have been influenced by the event and the mythical Plain of Nysa may be identical to the southern plane in the model. It appears also that the influence of the Minoan eruption on the evolution of Greek mythology has been substantial, e.g. A detailed analysis of multiple circumstantial evidence from geological, archeological and philological data, as well as an analysis of Greek mythology, leads to the conjecture of a fertile plain in today´s southern caldera, surrounded by patches of lagoons. In the present Part 2, the established 3D virtual topographic model has been refined. A chain of lagoons along the eastern caldera cliffs has been speculatively derived from a geographical interpretation of the River fresco painting, but the rest of the southern caldera region and the coastline west of Cape Perivola remained largely elusive. The fragmented scenes of the Battle fresco could also be located there and along the northern caldera cliffs below Oia. In Part 1 of this essay, a quantitative perspective analysis of the Flotilla fresco paintings in the West House, room 5, Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece, has enabled localization of the landscape for the Arrival town scenes along the island´s south coast including the excavation site, and for the Departure town scenes the region inside today´s northern caldera, where the depicted island is centered south of Cape Perivola.