13 Decoding the Atlantis Legend w/ Mark Adams (Ancient Greece Declassified Podcast)

Joining us to talk about the main theories that have been proposed on the meaning of the Atlantis tale and whether there is any truth to it is best selling author Mark Adams. He has explored all the major candidate sites for the location of Atlantis and has met with all of the most hardcore atlantologists in the world. He is the author of the book "Meet Me in Atlantis: My Quest to Find the 2,500-Year-Old Sunken City." No other story from ancient Greece has fueled so many controversies, theories, investigations, novels, movies, and documentaries as the story of Atlantis – that grand civilization that supposedly flourished thousands of years before the pyramids were built, and was completely wiped off the face of the earth by a major cataclysm. Interestingly, all of the written “evidence” for Atlantis from ancient times is contained in the work of a single author – the philosopher Plato (who we talked about in episode 8). Plato wrote about Atlantis towards the end of his life in two philosophical works called the Timaeus and the Critias, which are meant to be sequels of his earlier philosophical blockbuster the Republic. The big question remains: is there any truth or hidden meaning to the Atlantis legend?