Two and a half millennia ago, one of our most famous philosophers wrote half of an incomplete

trilogy of dialogues, and among the many ideas introduced was a thought experiment, involving

a hypothetical society that Plato named Atlantis.

Today, however, it seems more people than not mistake Plato's dialogues for historical

accounts and go launching off on insanely misguided quests, searching real oceans for a mythical

concept.

Atlantis is coming up today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com all about Atlantis.

It's a legend that's inspired more than 200 TV shows and movies.

The Library of Congress has over 4,400 listings for books about it.

It is scarcely possible to grow up and not hear stories of Atlantis, the legendary ancient

civilization that faced the wrath of the gods and was crushed beneath the seas, but not

before lending its name to the ocean itself.

Today, we're going to look at the story of Atlantis, its origin and its influence, and

come to a conclusion on whether any of the modern claims for its actual existence, as a real

civilization, have any merit.

The myth of Atlantis is, in the simplest terms, an Elvis sighting.

When Elvis Presley was found unresponsive in his bathroom in 1977, doctors tried to revive

him.

His pronounced dead at the hospital, he was autopsied.

There is no doubt that he died on that day.

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