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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.

Hey, Lulu, how's it going?

 Yeah. I'm doing alright. So what are we going to talk about today?

 We've talked about Utopian societies in the past, but have you ever heard of Atlantis? 

Atlantis, 亚特兰蒂斯. I think I've heard that name in like games, fantasy novels, TV shows, it's not a real place is it?

 It might be.

Oh, it's one of those... it's one of those legendary places that some people believe it to be real.

Exactly.

Now we've talked about the Pyramids and how the Pyramids may be something related to aliens. And this is maybe a more realistic thing. (also aliens?) However it might not be we have to kind of get a little bit into the topic a little bit more.

But first of all Atlantis has been... the whole legend about Atlantis has been around for ages, right? How far can we trace back to in history?

We can trace it back to Plato, right? And Plato described Atlantis as an island nation that was basically once the rulers of the western world.

柏拉图时候就已经说到了 an island nation, I thought they were undersea civilization or they sink.

Some people called them an Undersea Nation, but according to legend they were sunk into the sea.

I see because I don't know why, but every time I think of Atlantis I seem to think about things like Little Mermaid. 

The Little Mermaid, the father of the Little Mermaid is Poseidon, and Poseidon was the one who ruled over Atlantis and when he got angry at them, he punished them and sank Atlantis into the sea.

 A lot of the lore about Atlantis it has to do with marine life, has to do with sea.

But the people who lived on the island were just regular people who were blessed by the Gods. They lived there and they were rich but they fell out of favor with the gods and so they were punished.

So first of all, let's get back to Plato. 当时柏拉图what did he actually say about Atlantis? He just said that's an island nation in what sort of context did he mention...

Well, he was talking about more philosophical ideas but he gave a few different dialogues about the island of Atlantis. He called it the Lost Island of Atlantis.

Some people say it was just a narrative fiction as a way to tell a story to get people to understand why they should live good lives. But other people say that he was talking about a real place and that in his dialogues he was talking about why people should be careful because if we followed the path of the Atlanteans, we might be lost under the sea as well.

So as a philosopher, Plato might have just been talking about something metaphorically, it’s like, let me give you a fable that sort of the thing我给你们讲个寓言故事, 亚特兰蒂斯怎么样, but people might have taken it literally.

Some people have taken it literally. 

Over the years this whole idea about searching for the lost civilization of Atlantis.  That's a whole thing.

It's a legitimate thing just like looking for Bigfoot. There are people who are searching the world for the Lost City of Atlantis, the Lost Cities of Gold but the Lost City of Atlantis is probably one of the biggest ones that people are looking for.

I think there might be a reason because I think marine archaeology has discovered some of these ancient civilizations that have sunk right into the ocean.

That's fairly common. There's a lot of islands that have sunk over the years and like the civilizations that live there, all the houses are undersea, some have been preserved, others not so well.

Where is Atlantis in the lore? Is it in Europe?

It's difficult to say, but some people look at the Mediterranean Sea, others people talk about more like the Atlantic Ocean. However something very interesting be due to like some Continental shift some people say that Antarctica, that is actually Atlantis,

Mediterranean, 地中海, 就欧洲这边的or Atlantic sea, 就是大西洋. I mean for me, it would be quite natural to assume Atlantic, Atlantis, you know is that why people draw that connection.