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    NEWS September 2023

    September 2023. Hi Atlantipedes, At present I am in Sardinia for a short visit. Later we move to Sicily and Malta. The trip is purely vacational. Unfortunately, I am writing this in a dreadful apartment, sitting on a bed, with access to just one useable socket and a small Notebook. Consequently, I possibly will not […]Read More »
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    Joining The Dots

    I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Diller, Hans (L)

Hans Diller (1905-1977) was a German classical scholar with a particular interest in ancient Greek medicine. He was also a student of the Greek tragedians and co-authored works about Sophocles. His scholarship resulted in an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens being awarded in 1962. He was professor of classical philology at Kiel University until his retirement.

In 1953 he published Der Atlantisbericht ein Platonischer Mythos, in which he suggested that Plato’s Atlantean war was a ‘fictional parallel’ to the Greco-Persian wars (500-449 BC). As these conflicts took place before Solon visited Egypt, so, for Plato to name him as a source would have been an obvious and foolish lie.

Diller’s theory followed the views of Adolf Schulten, but was dismissed by Jürgen Spanuth[015.16].