InfluenceLOW
Added by Media Influence Map · 27 September 2026

The influence
Τίμαιος Timaeus
Nonfiction · -360

The work it shaped
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Book · 1869
In the chapter "A Vanished Continent", Captain Nemo walks Aronnax through the drowned ruins of Atlantis, and Aronnax identifies them from Plato's account, which begins in the Timaeus. Verne takes Plato's island at its word and puts it on the Atlantic floor. One episode of the novel, hence LOW.
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