Unit 5　Section A　Starting out & Understanding ideas 同步课件 【新教材】外研版（2019）选择性必修第四册

Unit 5 Into the unknown 素养导航 主题语境——人与自然　未解之谜 The Lost City of Atlantis Plato’s Atlantis The lost city of Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned① in Plato’s works Timaeus and Critias,where it represents the antagonist(反对者) naval power that besieges(围攻) “Ancient Athens”.In the story,Athens was able to repel the Atlantean attack,unlike any other nation of the known world,supposedly giving testament to the superiority of Plato’s concept of a state as described in his work the Republic.At the end of the story,Atlantis eventually② falls out of favour with the gods and famously submerges③ into the Atlantic Ocean. The lost city of Atlantis Despite its minor importance in Plato’s work,the Atlantis story has had a considerable impact on literature.The allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up in utopian works of several Renaissance writers,such as Bacon’s New Atlantis and More’s Utopia. Plato’s vague indications④ of the time of the events—more than 9,000 years before his day—and the a