Atlantis: The Legend (TRIH eps 314-315)
360 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue a multi-part exploration of the Atlantis myth, tracing its origins in Plato's Timaeus and how the story was reworked across the Renaissance, early modern utopian literature, 19th-century popularizers and 20th-century esoteric and political movements. They discuss early modern readings that equated Atlantean survivors with peoples encountered during the Age of Discovery, and the rise of influential figures such as Ignatius Donnelly, whose 1882 A...
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Around 360 BCE
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)