Atlantis
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The fictional island of Atlantis has intrigued and eluded us for millennia. First mentioned in the works of Plato, it's a story that captures our collective imagination - and yet it's almost certainly false.
Dan is joined by Stephen Kershaw, author of "A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State". We're going to see if there are any grains of truth to the tale of this elusive island, and the people who supposedly lived there.
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| 1:05.7 | In 360 BC, Plato, the philosopher, wrote of an island. |
| 1:12.4 | An island on which there had been an extraordinary advanced civilization |
| 1:16.2 | but an island that was destroyed submerged beneath the waves. |
| 1:21.4 | And once lain beyond the straits of Gibraltar he said the pillars of Hercules |
| 1:27.0 | he writes there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together the name he gave it was Atlantis. |
| 1:33.2 | The name he gave it was Atlantis. |
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