An A-Z Guide to the Search for Plato's Atlantis

Jonas Bergman is a Swedish Atlantologist living in Uppsala, who actively promotes his theory that Plato’s Atlantis was located in Morocco (PAiM). His excellent website(a) concentrates on matching the topography of Morocco with Plato’s description, together with a detailed re-appraisal of Plato’s original text. He presented a paper at the 2005 Atlantis conference on Melos in which he outlined the evidence for linking Atlantis with the Phoenicians. Bergman contends that while Plato never used the Greek word for continent, epiros, his statement that Atlantis was greater than Asia and Libya combined was a reference to its size rather than its military might. He supports this contention with a quotation from Strabo (Geography 2.3.6) where he does employ the term epiros.

Although he originally favoured the ancient city of Lixus, Bergman has now modified his views and has opted for Chellah, a site on the river Bou Regreg near the Moroccan capital, Rabat. 

(a) http://www.paim.net/morocco/

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