Andrew Schulz

This volcano was 30 million kilotons of energy.

That's how cataclysmic something like this was.

So you can imagine that something like that sits permanently in the back of the minds of a Greek person.

And so I think in Plato's Atlantis, you have these kernels of truth.

You have...

This was actually Europe's first ancient civilization, Crete.

So the Minoans of Crete.

So the Greeks definitely remember it.

They definitely remember the dramatic events that led to them being destroyed.

They remember the Mycenaeans, which had colonized Athens.

The Athenians' core principal mythological figure is Theseus, who was an...

an Athenian, but also a Mycenaean as well, who went into the land of the Minotaur and killed the Minotaur, basically.

And so, yeah, I think that that is what Plato was drawing on.

And that's a, like, you know, it's an actual, like, robust archaeological idea rather than, like, you know, sometimes I just...

sometimes I get tired of talking about the mystery with no actual theories.

You know what I mean?

And so that's sort of, if I have to put a theory as to what I think it is... Does anybody else share this viewpoint on it?

There are archaeologists who agree, and then there are archaeologists who, like,

Completely.

Out and out, completely disagree.