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Oh, hi, hello there.

This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby!

And I am that host of yours, the woman crushing your Atlantean dreams live.

Well, well, well, well, well.

I had intended for us to be done with Atlantis, but I put out a couple of polls both on Twitter

and Instagram, and the people have spoken.

I wondered whether you all would appreciate hearing the entirety of Plato's writing on

Atlantis, and I take it that you would.

I do think this is helpful.

Obviously, I shared with you a lot of quotes and references in that first episode of

the show, but there is more to Plato's writing, and now that you've heard all I've had to

say on that never, ever lost island, you can listen to the entirety of Plato and understand

what exactly there was and was not when it comes to the Atlantis of the ancient world.

So today, I give you a reading of the entirety of Plato's critics.

Remember, the context for this is that the dialogue that precedes the critics in what

would have been a trilogy if it hadn't been unfinished and or lost, the Timis, briefly

introduces the notion of Atlantis.

I thought about reading some of that, but it's tricky to sort through because the whole

idea is that it's this fictional chat between these guys as they think about random philosophical

musings.

There's mention of Atlantis, but basically, Critius is just saying like, oh yeah, I heard

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