Was Atlantis Real? Atlantis and the Minotaur | Part 1

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
4:57 What’s the history of the story of Atlantis?
5:18 First error of the story
5:45 Who was Critias? Was he real?
7:05 Why wasn’t Atlantis a historical event?
7:35 Plato the Philosopher
8:32 What proof is there for Atlantis?
9:39 Atlantis wasn’t a city to be admired
10:07 Academic consensus about Atlantis
10:26 Atlantis as an allegory for the Persian Empire
11:40 Atlantis’ connection to Syracuse and Plato’s Slavery
12:21 What’s the historical evidence of a sinking city?
13:14 Could a tsunami wipe out a civilisation?
14:19 What really happened to the Minoans
15:49 Where does the sinking island image come from?
17:57 How the Minotaur relates to the Atlantis myth
19:17 The Geography of Atlantis
20:26 The Minoans as ancestors of Europe
23:45 The Man who created the conspiracy theory
26:06 Diffusionism
27:04 Debunking Ignatius Donnelley’s theory
30:40 Donnelley’s Shakespeare Theory
31:30 Conclusion: Was Atlantis real?

Resources: (this list is not complete. I have a list on my composter at home and I forgot to upload it before the video went live. It will be updated later. These are just some from my notes app whilst I was collecting)
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