Angie Hobbs: Well, it's a possibility. He's certainly got the vivid imagination to be able to have made it up. He's not a historian, that's not his intention. His intention is to use history, to use mythology to make his own philosophical points.
安琪·霍比斯:这极有可能。他确实运用了丰富的想象去创作它。他不是一个历史学家,那也不是他的意图。他的目的是运用历史、运用神话来得出他自己的哲学观点。
Bettany Hughes: How possible do you think it is that the Atlantis myth has some kind of a root in the prehistoric past?
贝特妮·休斯:你觉得亚特兰蒂斯神话有多大的可能性是根据真实事件改编的?
Angie Hobbs: I think it's very likely that Plato has heard some stories of past civilisations which have come crashing down, that he's got half-remembered bits of oral history which he weaves in. He's 9)concocting this fantastical brew here but he's using bits of mythology, bits of history, anything he wants, as part of the mix. So I think there could be some factual historical basis for Plato's legend, even though that's not what Plato himself is particularly interested in.
安琪·霍比斯:我认为很有可能是柏拉图听过一些流传下来的,关于消失的过去文明的故事,他对口口相传的故事残存记忆进行了整理。他虽然编造着捕风捉影的内容,但他运用了大量的神话传说和历史记录,任何需要的内容都能作为创作的一部分。所以我认为,柏拉图的神话可能存在一些真实的历史基础,即使那并不是柏拉图本人特别感兴趣的。
Bettany Hughes: Whatever Plato's inspiration, Atlantis has captured our imagination ever since. It's led to scores of expeditions and thousands of books. More often than not, these quests tell us more about the power of human imagination than about Atlantis itself.
贝特妮·休斯:不管怎样,从那时起,柏拉图的灵感——亚特兰蒂斯已经充斥在我们的想象空间之中。这也因此产生了相关的探险事件和成千上万的相关书籍。这些探索多半会告诉我们,人类想象力的力量,要大于亚特兰蒂斯这个事实本身。
文化小链接
亚特兰蒂斯的传奇性的确很让人着迷,古往今来,无数的艺术家们也充分地利用了亚特兰蒂斯传说来创作出很多很优秀的作品。其中包括:
● 小说《海底两万里》(儒勒·凡尔纳著),本作中亚特兰蒂斯只是在其中一幕出场,并非核心。
● 日本动画《冒险少女娜汀亚》,虽然蓝本是凡尔纳的《海底两万里》,但亚特兰蒂斯却摇身一变成为主要事件围绕的核心。亚特兰蒂斯在本作中的超古代文明印象成为了后来亚特兰蒂斯相关创作参考的其中一个蓝本。
● 迪士尼动画电影《失落的帝国》(2001),由于本作中亚特兰蒂斯的印象和动画片《海底两万里》的相似度太高,曾经引发极大争议。
● 电脑游戏《神话世纪》(微软,2002)和《神话世纪:泰坦》(微软, 2003),战役模式中的男主角是亚特兰蒂斯人,资料片中则增加了亚特兰蒂斯人的文明。
●电影/电视《变形金刚》系列
《战斗吧!超机械生命体变形金刚》(东映,1987)
《变形金刚:微型传说》(Actas,2003),亚特兰蒂斯在本作中指的同样是超古代的文明,但却因为滥用微型金刚发动战争而毁灭。
《变形金刚:银河原力》(GONZO,2005),亚特兰蒂斯在本作中指的是沉没于海底的一艘古代变形金刚移民船。
● 电脑游戏/电影《古墓奇兵:第三波》,亚特兰蒂斯是一代的主轴剧情。