Plato's Account of Atlantis (Complete Audiobook)

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  • čas přidán 30. 10. 2023
  • The original description of Atlantis from Plato's Critias.
    #atlantis #plato

Komentáře • 109

  • @lordtharium9369
    @lordtharium9369 Před 7 měsíci +37

    I take it your Atlantis denial is over. About time.

  • @ancienttimes3773
    @ancienttimes3773 Před měsícem +2

    keep it up, man, people really like these old audiobooks. The classics were loved for a reason.

  • @SwagMcFresh
    @SwagMcFresh Před 7 měsíci +21

    I can’t believe it. This was my favourite side project of Carl’s - heck, my favourite CZcams channel, period. I never thought I’d see it active again.

    • @madlad_dad
      @madlad_dad Před 6 měsíci

      I was wondering why the narrator sounded like him. I just stumbled upon this channel.

  • @JesusFriedChrist
    @JesusFriedChrist Před 7 měsíci +10

    A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

    • @SoldierOfAlIah
      @SoldierOfAlIah Před 2 měsíci +1

      this isn't good too have that name and profile pic its rude to us muslims.

  • @jamesnewstead7099
    @jamesnewstead7099 Před 7 měsíci +11

    The best channel on CZcams is back

  • @cal2127
    @cal2127 Před 6 měsíci +4

    im so glad this channel isnt abandoned. its an absolute goldmine

  • @SwagMcFresh
    @SwagMcFresh Před 7 měsíci +10

    If you set up a Patrion just for Ancient Recitations, I’d throw money at it. My absolute favourite kind of content.

  • @Dave-ks9fi
    @Dave-ks9fi Před 7 měsíci +12

    This is brilliant, in so many interpretations of the myth it's assumed they had advanced technology by our standards and not just what was impressive in the Bronze age like hot running water.

    • @RippDrive
      @RippDrive Před 7 měsíci +1

      Religion is a technology, and they were unquestionably more advanced than we are now.

    • @Dave-ks9fi
      @Dave-ks9fi Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@RippDrive if Poseidon actually manifested and built the place perhaps. However the description of the technology isn't some advanced alien computer systems and limitless energy as is so often expected. It's canals and plumbing, with good urban planning.

    • @svinkuk2652
      @svinkuk2652 Před 6 měsíci

      Those assumptions mainly come from a couple of psychics, one of which is seen as the most "believeable" psychics to have ever lived, since a lot of his predictions did come true, and he never accepted payment for his readings.
      The other one described atlantian technology as technology we know today, for example the internet, video calls across the globe, hand held phones, text to speech, and flying machines which ran on electricity which was transmitted through the air. he had no real education to speak of and claimed an angel was telling him about it.
      He described all of this in the 1800's.
      So thats who it comes from, and why some believed it to be true.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@RippDrive
      Religion is not technology.

    • @RippDrive
      @RippDrive Před 4 měsíci

      @@mnomadvfx Which dictionary are you referencing?

  • @MyMomSaysImKeen
    @MyMomSaysImKeen Před 7 měsíci +13

    Thank you for starting this channel up again, Carl.
    I'm a visually disabled dude who jams out to your readings

  • @oleyullah
    @oleyullah Před 7 měsíci +9

    Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock be like 🥰☝️😌

  • @Jabbadoor2
    @Jabbadoor2 Před 7 měsíci +6

    I love your readings! Thanks.

  • @sadwingsraging3044
    @sadwingsraging3044 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Excellent content just how I like it.😎👍🏴‍☠

  • @LWolf12
    @LWolf12 Před 7 měsíci +5

    Damn, right when the story was getting interesting.

  • @codybassett112
    @codybassett112 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Watched, liked, and shared immediately

    • @Vicus_of_Utrecht
      @Vicus_of_Utrecht Před 6 měsíci

      Funny this weekend in my rec feed was this channel's very first one. Didn't pay attention to date but watched, liked, subbed then. Didn't know channel was in torpor for 5 years lol

  • @SkepticalWaves
    @SkepticalWaves Před 7 měsíci +5

    Carl is threatened by the recent rise of up and coming narration channel @SkepticalWaves who reached 10K subs this week.

    • @RippDrive
      @RippDrive Před 7 měsíci +1

      Congrats bro! Your channel taught me there are actually books worth reading after swearing off reading since high school.

  • @ShortbusMooner
    @ShortbusMooner Před 7 měsíci +4

    How nice! Thank you, sir! ☺👍

  • @rugvedkulkarni1593
    @rugvedkulkarni1593 Před 6 měsíci

    I am really glad you are still making these.

  • @venomdust1
    @venomdust1 Před 7 měsíci

    Thanks for returning to this channel . From Hawaii cheers 🤙

  • @davedgs4144
    @davedgs4144 Před 5 měsíci

    Good to see this channel back

  • @arkhaan7066
    @arkhaan7066 Před 7 měsíci

    Welcome back man, Ive missed this channel

  • @kingofcards9516
    @kingofcards9516 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Great video.

  • @graalcloud
    @graalcloud Před 7 měsíci +1

    Best channel ever

  • @TdubDee
    @TdubDee Před 7 měsíci +1

    This was just awesome to hear.

  • @jameskingsley210
    @jameskingsley210 Před 6 měsíci

    He’s back!

  • @Dave-ks9fi
    @Dave-ks9fi Před 7 měsíci +3

    The last line is upsetting. :(

    • @MrDUneven
      @MrDUneven Před 7 měsíci +1

      The pain is too real

  • @BlazRa
    @BlazRa Před 7 měsíci +3

    I'm planning to design my house after Atlantis it's not going to be the same size obviously but it's going to have three channels where is Garden set up in between and some bridges and there's going to be a roundhouse with a tower that comes out the middle and there's going to be a very large Crystal on top of the tower the Crystal Tower.
    I'm basically going to grow a bunch of trees along the banks to hold them and then other things will be grown in different areas where it's appropriate

  • @graalcloud
    @graalcloud Před 7 měsíci +3

    I can't help but think this is a description of a secret society

    • @gandfgandf5826
      @gandfgandf5826 Před 2 měsíci

      Listening to this after reading a comment elsewhere describing this as an encoded medical book. IDK what it is.

  • @belstar1128
    @belstar1128 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Interesting how he said it existed 9000 years ago .did he know about the ice age and the flooding that happened after that .because he wrote this over 2000 years ago .so that would be 11.000 years ago around the time the ice age ended.

  • @BatmanBoss
    @BatmanBoss Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks

  • @think2positive
    @think2positive Před 7 měsíci +6

    Necromancy! Necromancy of old channels!

  • @namshimaru
    @namshimaru Před 6 měsíci +1

    As a 31 year old, I remember a lot of this.

  • @TransRoofKorean
    @TransRoofKorean Před 6 měsíci +1

    WAIT A MINUTE. Sargon's back to uploading here?!

  • @TotalWar305
    @TotalWar305 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Yes! Plato speaks, via Swindon

  • @fedyno4reviews
    @fedyno4reviews Před 7 měsíci

    Good job Sargon

  • @willgoins218
    @willgoins218 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Reinvigorated

  • @CulusMagnus
    @CulusMagnus Před 7 měsíci

    Carl being awesome boii once more w00t

  • @therealquade
    @therealquade Před 7 měsíci +2

    So, what do you think of Bright Insight's videos on atlantis being the eye of the sahara?

    • @mariussielcken
      @mariussielcken Před 6 měsíci

      That would imply an ahistorical higher sea going lower, whereas Atlantis clearly was on the Atlantic plain, which was swallowed by the sea due to the end of the ice age.

    • @therealquade
      @therealquade Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@mariussielcken thats covered, the elevation changes over time, plate techtonics and magma bubbles and all that.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci

      @@therealquade
      "thats covered, the elevation changes over time, plate techtonics and magma bubbles and all that"
      You literally just hand waved non existent tectonic models.
      We know how plate tectonics work.
      It doesn't work like that.

    • @therealquade
      @therealquade Před 4 měsíci

      @@mnomadvfx might wanna so much as check wikipedia before you try to play an uno-reverse. Look up "Dome (geology)" on wikipedia, and the richat structure is quite literally the ur example, The richat is a dome, that has since collapsed. Furthermore, the sand in the sahara is from the ocean floor, from a massive wave that carried it up. That's a fact, the only debate is on *when* it happened, and not that it had happened at all.

    • @scottbreseke716
      @scottbreseke716 Před 4 měsíci

      I've enjoyed many of Bright Insight's videos in the past, but he's completely wrong about Atlantis. Atlantis was off of the Iberian Peninsula in the north Atlantic ocean.

  • @EuroWarsOrg
    @EuroWarsOrg Před měsícem

    I recognise that voice!
    There was no uniform calendar back then, so what does "9,000 years" mean?

  • @Homesickfobbit
    @Homesickfobbit Před 7 měsíci +1

    Sweet

  • @Drew_McTygue
    @Drew_McTygue Před 7 měsíci +5

    $10 says Atlantis was the Minoan civilization and the disaster mentioned in Plato's account is the major volcanic eruption that occurrsd on Therea (modern day Santorini) deatroying minoan settlements on that island

    • @MrDUneven
      @MrDUneven Před 7 měsíci +2

      It's in Eye of Sahara

    • @Drew_McTygue
      @Drew_McTygue Před 7 měsíci

      ​@MrDUneven definitely not. Solon got the account from Egypt, the egyptian old kingdom was contemporary with the minoans, they had contact and traded, the minoans had a bull cult as described in Plato's account, Santorini is an archipelago which had a central island with access to the sea before the eruption, the site of Akrotiri (buried under tons of ash) has frescos depicting this island showing a citadel on a central island with canals. The island at the center, and its city was destroyed in the eruption, along with the City, thus appearing to be swallowed by the sea. Only akrotiri survives. No evidence of human occupation exists at the eye ofSolon, or anywhere nearby. The minoans actually existed, but disappeared in part due to this cataclysmic eruption in the Mediterranean

    • @oleyullah
      @oleyullah Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@Drew_McTygue doesn't Plato's account say about an island or group of islands one gets to sailing West through the Pillars of Heracles which is the Gibraltar Strait?

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci

      @@Drew_McTygue
      "Solon got the account from Egypt"
      This assumes the account within the dialogue is a factual account and not a framework of a story designed to convery a philsophical message to Athenians - something Plato is commonly known to have done before Critias and Timaeus.
      "The minoans actually existed, but disappeared in part due to this cataclysmic eruption in the Mediterranean"
      No.
      The Minoans did indeed exist - but they did not simply disappear after the Theran eruption.
      Whole communities on Crete were insulated from the post eruption tsunami on the south coast due to higher elevation and not facing towards Thera (Santorini's older Hellenic Greek name).
      After the eruption the island was likely easily conquered by Mycenae due to the impact to their various crops and trade weakenign all aspects of the civilisation.
      The remnants of the Minoan civilisation were effectively ruled over by Mycenae during that period.
      In all likelihood the Minoans integrated and assimilated into Mycenae and later Hellenic Greek society, just as the formerly warring Etruscans did into the Roman republic and empire.

  • @mnomadvfx
    @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci

    INCORRECT.
    THe account within the dialogue is that of Critias.
    The clue is in the name of the dialogue 😑
    At no point of the dialogue is Plato mentioned, nor does any part of it appear to be written from his POV.
    The order of transmission of the story as written within the dialogue is:
    Egyptian ancestors -> Temple builders of Sais -> Sonchis of Sais -> Solon -> Critias's grandfather -> Critias.

  • @SkepticalWaves
    @SkepticalWaves Před 7 měsíci

    I feel attak.

  • @extraspecialk3244
    @extraspecialk3244 Před 7 měsíci

    Wait a NEW upload?!

  • @TwoStageTrigger
    @TwoStageTrigger Před 6 měsíci +2

    They just found a complete scroll in Egypt. It's the book of the dead. Could be interesting.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci

      The dyhastic Egyptian funerary rites evolved over time.
      The "book of the dead", or more accurately the "book of going forth by day" is the later, more stable version of them known most to the layman.
      The earliest version of their funerary rites we know of are the 'Pyramid Texts' first seen in the burial chamber of the Pyramid of Unas (last pharaoh of the 5th dynasty) - footage of it can be found in various videos on CZcams.

  • @dashofsalt4359
    @dashofsalt4359 Před 7 měsíci

    The Minoans, that's all I can think about, long lasting, colourful and won wars against the mycenaeans

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx Před 4 měsíci

      I don't know about wars.
      The simple fact is that the Minoans were the dominant force of the Aegean in their time - superior on the water in every way.
      After the Theran eruption their entire society was badly impacted to the point that the Mycenaeans didn't need superior skills to conquer Crete.
      When the dust settled Mycenaean sailors in the Aegean would have found starving or broken Minoan communities disconnected, and very much in culture shock, probably believing that their gods had abandoned, or worse turned against them.

  • @RobinJDollarSign
    @RobinJDollarSign Před 2 měsíci

    Guys we are atlantis, and we are actually living beneath an ocean , the dome is soo large, and we think that the sky is blue , actually its the ocean, we are buried deep down in a dome , like a fish bowl, these books are actually coming from the outside, they venture here, and atlantis is earth!

  • @aboukalil
    @aboukalil Před měsícem

    Is this thé eye of sahara an ancien Hydron colider that was accidently exploded abd distroyed atlantis ?

  • @JesusFriedChrist
    @JesusFriedChrist Před 6 měsíci

    17:39

  • @phoboskittym8500
    @phoboskittym8500 Před 3 měsíci

    Its the Richat structure... The Eye of the Sahara.

  • @HYEOL
    @HYEOL Před 7 měsíci +2

    Omg it's alive

  • @svinkuk2652
    @svinkuk2652 Před 6 měsíci

    Tfw youre listening to a thousands of years old story and "the rest has been lost."
    FUCK!

  • @botsharing1702
    @botsharing1702 Před 6 měsíci

    Minoan civilization. Solved!😊

  • @Shivaismysaviour
    @Shivaismysaviour Před 2 měsíci

    It's a warning ⚠️
    There have been many Atlantis

  • @extraspecialk3244
    @extraspecialk3244 Před 7 měsíci

    When are you going to talk to Randall Carlson?

    • @fedyno4reviews
      @fedyno4reviews Před 7 měsíci

      🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 Scam artist

  • @thedude4594
    @thedude4594 Před 3 měsíci

    So look for mud

  • @cringlator
    @cringlator Před 7 měsíci +4

    Guys it’s not real it never was! It’s just an analogy for an ideally structured city state! Guys? Stop having fun!

    • @TheCrazyFinn
      @TheCrazyFinn Před 7 měsíci

      It's the Eye of Sahara

    • @cftyftyufyfuyfty
      @cftyftyufyfuyfty Před 7 měsíci +3

      It is at the top of North Pole and we'll never see it because the entire world's navy guards it

    • @Alex_Fahey
      @Alex_Fahey Před 7 měsíci +6

      Virgin History Fan vs. Chad Mythology Enjoyer

    • @RippDrive
      @RippDrive Před 7 měsíci

      @@cftyftyufyfuyfty I've known a number of people who've flown over the north pole. No stories of anything interesting unfortunately :(
      Well, other than all the petrified forests up there.

    • @Clickathon
      @Clickathon Před 7 měsíci

      wrong pole. Operation Highjump - 4,700 men, 70 ships (including 1 aircraft carrier with 33 aircraft). Totally normal, nothing to see here, carry on citizen. No pyramids here, look away.

  • @TentaclePentacle
    @TentaclePentacle Před 7 měsíci

    Eh why does it look like the Atlantis in Stargate?

    • @joebloggs479
      @joebloggs479 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Because Plato is a plagiarist

    • @TentaclePentacle
      @TentaclePentacle Před 7 měsíci

      @@joebloggs479 I always knew plato was a man of culture and have fine taste for scifi shows.

  • @chrissibersky4617
    @chrissibersky4617 Před 5 měsíci

    Is this Carl Benjamin?

  • @OfficialMrStonkered
    @OfficialMrStonkered Před 7 měsíci

    I just wanna go to the eye and dig up this long lost city.... If not for the sand people

  • @Dirge_For_November
    @Dirge_For_November Před 7 měsíci

    Algorithm.

  • @dontdeletemeyoutube6689
    @dontdeletemeyoutube6689 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Arrgghhh! Thought this would be good but fucking Sargon to narrates?? Why? I’ve managed like 3 years without hearing his voice!

    • @fedyno4reviews
      @fedyno4reviews Před 7 měsíci

      Yeah and I've only been able to go 3 days without reading a comment written by a Karen.

    • @dontdeletemeyoutube6689
      @dontdeletemeyoutube6689 Před 7 měsíci

      @@fedyno4reviews ah the le midwit sargonite fan response. Tell me were you a liberalist before it was cool?
      Fortuitously you haven’t bred so your children won’t inherit your impressive collection of sexually transmitted diseases.
      I am currently reading Locke

  • @a.s.239
    @a.s.239 Před 7 měsíci

    Skeptical Waves honestly has nothing on a human voice.

  • @alvarorubenvera5915
    @alvarorubenvera5915 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Afrocentrists are going to claim they were Atlanteans n shiet

  • @Yaannn.
    @Yaannn. Před 6 měsíci

    Atlantis Nusantara Indonesia mercusuar dunia

  • @crmesson22k
    @crmesson22k Před 7 měsíci

    Took a break from right wing bullshit to give us something good for once.

    • @Vicus_of_Utrecht
      @Vicus_of_Utrecht Před 6 měsíci

      Oh look a fascist pretending to be for liberty.

    • @Vicus_of_Utrecht
      @Vicus_of_Utrecht Před 6 měsíci

      Nothing funnier than the more Left someone is, the more fascist they are, but hide behind virtue signaling and soft bigotry of low expectations.

  • @user-yr5nv2gv7m
    @user-yr5nv2gv7m Před 6 měsíci

    @Ancient Recitations great u postin again, ever considered posting bits of 'Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum' theres a clear dearth here of swanky 1600s english with period-appropriate pirate/alchemist accent:D or 'The Lay of the Cid' or 'A Gest of Robyn Hode'?
    or rather more closely with the Atlantis topic checkout
    wiki/Valknut
    wiki/Tripura_(mythology)# The_construction_of_the_three_cities