Atlantis | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Atlantis


00:02:14 1 Plato's dialogues
00:02:24 1.1 iTimaeus/i
00:04:50 1.2 iCritias/i
00:09:21 2 Interpretations
00:09:30 2.1 Ancient
00:14:37 2.2 Jewish and Christian
00:18:17 2.3 Modern
00:20:20 2.3.1 Atlantis pseudohistory
00:20:28 2.3.1.1 Early influential literature
00:21:17 2.3.1.2 Impact of Mayanism
00:23:25 2.3.1.3 Ignatius Donnelly
00:24:33 2.3.1.4 Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophists
00:26:08 2.3.1.5 Nazism and occultism
00:27:37 2.3.1.6 Edgar Cayce
00:28:34 2.3.2 Recent times
00:30:31 3 Location hypotheses
00:31:24 3.1 In or near the Mediterranean Sea
00:33:13 3.2 In the Atlantic Ocean
00:34:27 3.3 In Europe
00:36:25 3.4 Other locations
00:37:03 4 Literary interpretations
00:37:12 4.1 Ancient versions
00:39:20 4.2 Utopias and dystopias
00:43:28 4.3 A land lost in the distance
00:45:03 4.4 Epic narratives
00:47:41 5 Artistic representations
00:47:51 5.1 Music
00:48:59 5.2 Painting and sculpture
00:51:40 6 See also
00:52:02 7 Notes
00:52:11 8 Further reading



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Atlantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "island of Atlas") is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic. In the story, Athens repels the Atlantean attack unlike any other nation of the known world, supposedly giving testament to the superiority of Plato's concept of a state. The story concludes with Atlantis falling out of favor with the deities and submerging into the Atlantic Ocean.
Despite its minor importance in Plato's work, the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature. The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia. On the other hand, nineteenth-century amateur scholars misinterpreted Plato's narrative as historical tradition, most notably in Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Plato's vague indications of the time of the events—more than 9,000 years before his time—and the alleged location of Atlantis—"beyond the Pillars of Hercules"—has led to much pseudoscientific speculation. As a consequence, Atlantis has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations and continues to inspire contemporary fiction, from comic books to films.
While present-day philologists and classicists agree on the story's fictional character, there is still debate on what served as its inspiration. As for instance with the story of Gyges, Plato is known to have freely borrowed some of his allegories and metaphors from older traditions. This led a number of scholars to investigate possible inspiration of Atlantis from Egyptian records of the Thera eruption, the Sea Peoples invasion, or the Trojan War. Others have rejected this chain of tradition as implausible and insist that Plato created an entirely fictional nation as his example, drawing loose inspiration from contemporary events such as the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415–413 BC or the destruction of Helike in 373 BC.