EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent
We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. 
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SECTIONS

02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon
08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia
14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales
21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania
28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa
31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica 
36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it
41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all


Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

Atlantipedia website

Timaeus By Plato


Critias By Plato


Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato

On Baptism by Tertullian
Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular Science
Atlantis on History.com
Atlantis at National Geographic 
Atlantis - An Investigation on Storymaps
Top 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of Atlantis
The ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis Story
Where is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in Discover
Is Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis Myth
Was there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff Works
Plato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory Blog
WHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS?
Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins
How the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and Rediscovered
Wrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of Helike
What Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology?
The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato Project
How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away
The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla
The Sunken City That Might Be Atlantis
Atlantis Location Hypothesis
10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of Atlantis
WHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEP
Atlantis, Lake Tritonis, and Pharos
Ignatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia 
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain Review
Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis?
The Canary Islands And The Atlantis Legend
Pillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea level
Lost city of Atlantis believed found off Spain
The Mystery of Carolina Bays
Location hypotheses of Atlantis
Hunting Atlantis TV show
“Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.”
What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure?
Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and Egypt
Atlantis on the Green Sahara
The Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid Campfire
How the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on Vox
Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis
Why Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's Interesting
Ep. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
The Island of Atlantis Discovered
The Blake Plateau: A Southern Treasure
Deep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake Plateau
Ep. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle
The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at Greenpeace
Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea
Atlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-Snell
Exploring Atlantis and Lemuria
Is Atlantis in Antarctica
Atlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft Wiki
Swedish Visions of Atlantis – Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s Atlantica
Atlantis Then and Now on the Theosophical Society website
Eight unbelievable theories about Atlantis - that people actually believed!
Atlantis Conspiracy website
Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth in The Guardian
Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found by Arysio Santos 
Joining The Dots: Plato's Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean by Tony O'Connell 

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