There Was No Ancient Apocalypse & Atlantis Wasn’t the Eye of the Sahara (Deconstructing Atlantis RE-AIR)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
Liv Albert
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Summary
Due to a frustratingly renewed interest, we're revisiting the Deconstructing Atlantis series.
The story of Atlantis has fascinated the world for centuries... But how many of us know where the story came from, or what is actually included in the original source? Episode one of Deconstructing Atlantis dives into the story of Atlantis as it exists in the Timaeus and Critias.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources/Further Reading: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, quotes translated by Benjamin Jowett; A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato’s Ideal State by Stephen P. Kershaw (includes alternate translation of Plato); PDF: Truth, Lies, and History in Plato's Timaeus and Critias by Thomas K Johansen, 1998. Listen to the episode on the myth of the Great Flood and Deucalion and Pyrrha here.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 1967, the Cold War, and Joseph Stalin's daughter, Stetlana, the princess of the |
| 0:15.0 | Kremlin, has just fled Mother Russia. |
| 0:18.4 | Her new home? |
| 0:20.0 | A place where the roads are paved with gold, and people bake apple pies out of baseball's |
| 0:26.0 | and freedom. |
| 0:27.4 | A place called America. |
| 0:35.4 | That story alone would be worthy of a podcast, but this one, Stetlana, is about what comes |
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| 0:46.6 | It has KGB agents, mystics, and a Frank Lloyd Wright Commune, destiny, immortality, and |
| 0:53.1 | breakable cycles, weird sex stuff, weird money stuff, weird dances, three Olga's, two |
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| 1:03.6 | Guess which one I am? |
| 1:05.2 | Listen to Stetlana's Stetlana on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you |
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| 1:17.1 | I'm journalist and I'm Wharton in my podcast, City of the Rails. |
| 1:20.6 | I plunge into the dark world of America's railroads, searching for my daughter Ruby, who ran |
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| 1:26.7 | I'm just stuck on this train, not where I'm going to end up, and I jump. |
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| 1:41.3 | I was in love with a lifestyle and the freedom, this community. |
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