选择性必修四外研版（2019）《Unit 5 Into the unknown》Section A Starting out & Understanding ideas优质课教学ppt课件

选择性必修四外研版（2019）《Unit 5 Into the unknown》Section A Starting out & Understanding ideas优质课教学ppt课件

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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 alleged location⑤ of Atlantis—“beyond the Pillars of Hercules”,an area at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar has led to much pseudoscientific speculation(伪科学的猜测).As a consequence⑥,Atlantis has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilisations and continues to inspire contemporary fiction,from comic books to films.

But is Atlantis real?

Many teams of scientists have tried to identify the location of the lost city of Atlantis in vain.Many of the proposed sites share some of the characteristics of the Atlantis story (water,catastrophic end,relevant period),but none has been proved to be a true historical Atlantis.?

词海拾贝

①mention vt.提到

②eventually adv.最终

③submerge vt.淹没

④indication n.暗示

⑤location n.地点

⑥consequence n.结果