Legends Summarized: Atlantis 

I do like the idea that Atlantis was never ACTUALLY destroyed by Poseidon Zeus: Poseidon deal with Atlantis Poseidon: Sureeee *hides under carpet*

Blue... Has thalassophobia... Blue is afraid of the big blue.. Huh, ironic

So Plato created a fictional world with incredible detail, then pretended that he was actually translating an ancient text about a story that really happened a long time ago, and even translated names based on their meaning? TOLKIEN!

Maybe the real Atlantis was the colonies we made along the way

Wait, Orichalcum is slightly less valuable than gold, reddish in colour, and a possible "magic" conductor. It's copper.

"THE DEEPER YOU GO THE MORE NIGHTMARES THERE ARE!" Sea = Internet?

This makes me think if two thousand years from now where modern literature might be considered as myths, people would think Hogwarts is true and try to find it.

Concept: "Doggerlantis" story that combines Atlantis mythos with the Arthurian mythos. Seems like we could have a lot of fun with the Isle of Avalon in that idea...

Just imagine it, England and France, *sharing a land border*

i love how people, in search of wealth and luxury, pursue a story about people who pursued too much luxury.

Plato: I've just made up this awesome civilization as an allegory, but I'm worried that people might think the civilization actually existed & look for it instead of learning from the allegory. I know! I'll put in a verifiably incorrect fact in the story. Readers: He must have just gotten the location wrong... Plato: ...

"the deeper you go the more nightmares there are" I love this quote and will forever use it to explain why the ocean is terrifying

Plato: "There, I'll sink Atlantis and that will be the end of it" Atlantis: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"

In conclusion, the REAL Atlantis was in your hearts and the journey all along.

The biggest surprise that I found out about was that Orichalcum was the latinization of the Greek word Orichalcos, which means that Yu-Gi-Oh knew EVEN MORE about Atlantis than anyone thought

"an ancient and powerful proto-greek kingdom with similar levels of technology to his time, is attacked by a group of powerful seafarers from the Atlantic who are trying to invade the whole Mediterranean." If you remove the part about Athens winning, the story you get is fairly similar to that of the Bronze Age Collapse. It's not that hard to imagine Plato hearing about this war the Mycenaeans (the actual proto-greek kingdom that the greeks idolized) and making some key changes to glorify this fanfic version of ancient greece that he idolized.

"Sinking underwater was supposed to destroy it, not make it cooler." -Red 2019

9:18 oh hey it's a Mysterious Color Unlike Any Seen On Earth

I...thought it was pronounced Ori-haalcum? Also, this story reminds me of that poor guy who told everyone about 'Wolf-Packs' and 'Alphas', nobody even listened to him when he came back a few years later and told everyone that the packs were just families and the Alpha was just the Dad of said family. And now the media is full of 'Alpha-Male' bullshit.

"Calm down there, Lovecraft" LOL And Blue's got a point, there's horrors going deeper, and there's always a bigger fish (or something else, not necessarily a "fish")

"THERE'S ALWAYS A BIGGER FISH!!!!" Qui-Gon: "My true successor."

2:00 Should be noted that Aristotle, who actually knew Plato personally, being one of his students, noted in his comments on Plato that the story of Atlantis was made up to serve a debating device, and was not meant to be taken literally. Funny that two thousand years later no one remembers the point Plato was trying to make, but everyone remembers the narrative device.

I remember hearing Tolkien once had a dream where he was on Atlantis when it sank, which A) led him to believe he was decended from an Atlantian, and B) inspired him to write the downfall of Numenor, a similarly prosperous island that also sank into the sea.

"I'm sure Platos is spinning in his grave about it" serves him right

“Yugioh knew more about Atlantis than I did. That one... kind of stung a little.” You can say that again

"It was beautiful, rich in resources, aND .... america. it was america" Me too, Red. Me too

The deeper you go the more nightmares there are, theres always a bigger fish! - Blue

As an avid Odd-Eyes fan, I’m quite proud that Yu-Gi-Oh! knew more about Atlantis than you did.

Plato: "Atlantis is bad and failed because of the corruption of humanity." Literally everyone else: Looking at Atlantis "We just think they're neat!"

Given that Atlantis' origin is actually "Egyptian", perhaps it shouldn't come as a shock that Yu-Gi-Oh knew so much about it.

Yugioh has taught me more about mythology (mainly Egypt) then any of the textbooks ive ever read. So I researched in my own time and as it turns out- Yugioh was right About a lot Anime really does have anything

I _adore_ the Doggerland-as-Atlantis theory, which also makes Ys and Lyonesse seem like mythologized remnants of the memory of the Storegga Slide (with some good ole’ misogynistic moralizing thrown in).

"Where do I sign up" Aquaman: right here *_paper rips apart due to water_*

it's weird to think that the *ancient fables of yore* are really just ancient fanfiction written by popular authors.

Just realized that Tolkien’s story of Númenor was probably more than a little inspired by the classic fall of Atlantis, even down to the parts of the line of kings becoming less “godlike” over time and their ever growing greed culminating in their waging war on the rest of the world, though with major differences such as the machinations of Sauron, the split of Numenorean’s into “true” and “treacherous” factions, their war on the West that brought about their destruction being done in the pursuit of immortality, and the fact that the “true” Numenoreans were able to escape from the doom of their homeland (as well as some of the “treacherous” / Black Numenoreans who were away in settlements on Middle Earth).

The way Blue said 'there's always a bigger fish' makes me so happy for absolutely no reason.

"The modern UK is just the highest highlands of this ancient landmass" Are you telling us that _we were Atlantis all along?_

Wow. We get Plato, Trope talks, and even REAL HISTORY. Red truly is a Renaissance Woman.

Reminds me of a legend here in Malaysia about a whole small kingdom along with a super huge super tall castle that sank into Lake Chini. The princess and the prince that visited her whom she fell in love with both turned into sea dragons or naga and swam out into the ocean. The prince swam back to China and the princess waits for him for so long she became Tioman Island. I love Malaysian myths.

Hey yo so this story as well as what you have said about Doggerland reminded me of a similar Welsh myth about a sunken civilisation (side note I have been to the petrified forest at the beach at Borth that people have said points to the fact that this mythological kingdom exists). The story goes that the kingdom was called Cantre'r Gwaelod which existed where Cardigan Bay now is. The prince of the Kingdom was in charge of manning the floodgates against the sea, but he got drunk one night and neglected his duties, causing the sea to sweep into the kingdom and flood it all. In Aberdovey, there is a huge bell underneath the pier, which the waves cause to ring as the tide goes in and out. It is meant to represent the sunken bell towers of the drowned kingdom, which are still supposed to ring in times of trouble

Atlantian sees orichalcum: A mysterious color unlike any seen on earth!

Fun fact: Tolkien loved the Atlantis myth so much that he wrote it into Númenor (even having the warmongering!) but when he realized what he was doing he kind-of panicked because "oh come on I should have gone for something more subtle than that..." and desperately wanted to make sure at least the name for the story didn't reference it too obviously. So he called it Akallabeth in Númenorean, which means something like "the sinking/descent". He was happy with that name too. Then he translated it into Quenya (one of his Elvish languages). And it was ATALANTE. :'D

What if Atlantis is neighbours with R'leyh and the Atlantis are just chillin with Cthulu and the elder gods drinking Cosmos and riding dolphins?

You guys should do an episode about Minoan Crete. It’s incredibly interesting and mysterious

Its ok if Atlantis doesn’t exist because tons of costal cities are soon to become it

Blue: “There’s always a biGGER FISH!” Liam Neeson: *breaks through the wall* “YES THERE IS!”

6:20 Well, there once was a barrier separating the mediterranian sea from the atlantic. That narrow passageway at Gibraltar hadn't always been there, and this separation of the oceans even lead to the mediterranian sea DRYING UP, leaving nothing behind but a salt desert and some hypersaline lakes. Now here's the issue: That whole shenanigan, which we refer to as the Messinian Event, happened about 6 Million years ago. At the end of the Miocene era. And it hasn't happened again since! So for Atlantis' debris to be forming a blockade at the Passage of Gibraltar, they'd be about 5,991 Million years late.

The bits about telling Blue to go watch Atlantis, when he's thalassophobic, THOSE ARE JOKES. Seriously. Don't push people to face their phobias unless you are a therapist trained specifically in that kind of therapy. That's the ONLY way that ever ends well. Especially don't demand people do something they're phobic about or terrified of, if you're really just denying that their fears exist. That's even worse.

I really love Red and Blue chatting back and forth like this. It’s like they live in my phone 😆

Me: it's 12:14 AM Overly sarcastic productions: uploads Me: *_I don't need sleep, I need answers_*

The moment she said stargates I was hooked, my favorite show growing up

"Atlantis MUST be real if Plato says it is! A philosopher would never make up things that weren't real just for philosophical discussion!" *Facepalms*

"There's always a bigger fish." - Qui-Gon Jinn Rest in peace my Jedi friend.

Anytime I hear "Atlantis" it's automatically followed up in my head by the statement "Behold the power of the orichacamalos Phawoah!" I blame Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged for that.

I wish they listed their sources, because I have to write an essay about Atlantis, but my professor won't let me use a video for reference

I heard a great theory about where Atlantis was. An advanced island dwelling civilization killed off by foods and natural disasters during the right time frame. They were really into bulls too 👍🏼

Floods are already a very real nightmare in Britain, but now knowing that a large portion of the country disappeared under the ocean is absolutely terrifying

So wait a minniut we just had a video that was basically discussing the ancient equvilant of reddit posts from 2500 years ago.

Now there's just one concept left for movie-makers and writers to devour :- "Atlantis being portrayed as R'lyeh"

I wasn't expecting an Evanescence song at the end that WASN'T Wake Me Up Inside

The real Atlantis was the friends we made along the way.

Props one for Doggerland, props two for Going Under by Evanescence

Love the Disney movie, it's honestly awesome how good something from the early 2000s still looks great today

Your map of Atlantis made me realize something about the Warhammer old world I've always thought that it was suspiciously similar to the real world map and when you placed Atlantis at the western end of the Mediterranean I realized that the High Elves are supposed to be Atlantis, making the border princes France/Spain, Norsca and the Russian lady are fairly obvious. Which means that... The Dark Elves the savage murderous traitors that **** and ****** their slaves are... Native Americans who fled from Atlantis? And that the southern lands filled with brutal Orcs and Egyptian inspired Tomb Kings are located on.... Africa. Hmm... I can't imagine why they scrapped the old setting, it was so in depth it almost felt like a real world set from the perspective of a small empire that... Tried to reach out and... Colonize... The "savage races" of other lands.... You know I take it back I think I'm starting to get why it got scrapped for a more fantasy-ish setting

"THE DEEPER YOU GO, THE MORE NIGHTMARES THERE ARE!" --Blue, 2019

A wild "oh hey it's a Mysterious Color Unlike Any Seen On Earth" appears on 9:18

I kind of want something that combines the Arthurian Mythos and Atlantis with the bulk of the story set in an un-sunken Doggerland. Also Quetzalcoatl is there because sky snek is cool.

7:50 That moment the Iberian Peninsula is no longer composed by Spain AND Portugal.... Rip Portugal

*"THERE'S ALWAYS A BIGGER FISH!!!"* I laughed so hard I almost cried. Banter is on point today, you guys.

"Also that YU-GI-OH knew more about Atlantis then I did." Personally I like to think that this shows we can learn so much from even a children's card game.

11:59 another good one is zealandia. It’s a real continent like Australia or Antarctica too. But after getting stretched incredibly thin after the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent most of it sank into the sea save for New Zealand and New Caledonia

Bioshock is the best adaptation of the myth of Atlantis in history. Takes all the original elements of Plato's Dialogue, remixes them a little to make them slightly more modern, and throws in a big naked bronze man beating the stuff out of you at the end! Even has a war with the surface break out if you get the bad ending.

So lemme get this straight YUGIOH, FREAKING YUGIOH had a better account of Atlantis than most others have!? Im honestly impressed.

I would love to see a more ancient Egyptian themed Atlantis. Underwater sphinx and pyramids.

Dinotopia actually had a unique twist to Atlantis by having the myth be inspired by the Dinotopian empire of Poseidos, with was named after an island off of Dinotopia's eastern coast.

You should make a video on all the things we’ve discovered, and haven’t, in our oceans. That would be so awesome to watch

You know it’s old when China uses bamboo strips instead of paper.

3:31 they called all of North Africa Libya though. That would make Atlantis MUCH bigger

So glad you liked Aquaman! It was legit good, and as someone who sympathizes with Blue about deep water, it's just scary enough to evoke awe at the appropriate moments and bring out fun where there should be fear. That scene where he's being chased by the deepdwellers as he dives into the inky stormy sea was breathtaking!

RU-vid suggestions were on point for once. I’ve been deep diving into these myth videos, and I can’t get enough! You rock, keep up the fun videos!

"oh hey, it's a mysterious color unlike any seen on earth" 9:18

*Plato, writing about Atlantis "Reality can be anything I want"

This is the only video/content about Atlantis and its 'existence' that doesn't make me want to scream, thank you so much

Its nice to know that everything that i learnt from season 4 of yugioh is somewhat accurate.

The Atlantis movie is very underrated. The Disney movie with Leonard Nemoy.

Britain: it's over Doggerland I have the high ground

I always to pause on Red footnotes when doing a rewatch where she goes into the details and then is like "eh, you get it."

Love Atlantis. I remember doing a report on it in middle school, treating it as a real history. Even painted a map of the Atlantic with it in its theoretical place - though what I drew was WAY bigger than Texas lol Also The Lost Empire is an amazing movie that deserves way more attention. The Yugioh season was also really fun.

“Alright calm down there Love Craft” Love Craft: But I already wrote about the *mysterious cities unlike any other on earth* Edit: WTF 800 likes in an hour? Well this is some *mysterious success unlike any other in my life*

Aquaman shows up to the first meeting of the Justice League. Wonder Woman: "You found my uncle's trident."

There's a Welsh "Atlantis" myth called "Cantref Gwaelod", which is about a kingdom that was located in Cardigan bay (roughly the dark green area to the west of Wales @11:03). Now it is unlikely that it existed, especially not long enough for the Britons to write about, but I suspect it was a myth made up when the ancient people found strange artifacts on the beaches at low tide. Even today after storms have washed enough sand away, you can find petrified tree stumps and what look like walls (they aren't walls, just some geological oddity) on the beaches of Ynys Las and Borth, which probably inspired the stories.

Not only was the video very entertaining, the beautiful singing at the end was a real treat, great job!

4:02 That is why I admire Disney’s Atlantis. It doesn’t go for a Greco-Roman look.

This is the one time Yugioh's atlantis season makes me happy

Literally all I knew about orichalcum prior to this video was that it makes flower pedals hit your enemies if you make armor out of it.

I relate so much to the fact there are always bigger fish. This weird feeling between desiring to personally see a colossal squid and the knowledge that I'd probably shit my pants at a glimpse in the deep sea.

There's a sunken Egyptian/Greek city called Heracleion right on the Egyptian shoreline discovered in 2000 with giant statues and underwater mummies!

The true Atlantis is the friends you've made along the way!

every time Red says "plato" i hear "play-doh" and yes i am laughing a lot over it

Unfortunately, people taking allegorical stories literally is exactly the sort of thing Plato warned against when it came to Greek mythology in general. He particularly was not happy about how unflatteringly some of the myths portrayed Zeus and Hera's marriage. Guy was quite literally like "He would not say that!!" For the gods.