Felice Vinci (1946- ) is an Italian nuclear engineer with a background in Latin and Greek studies and is a member of MENSA, Italy. It is his belief that Greek mythology had its origins in Northern Europe. His original book^[018] on the subject written twelve years ago has now been translated into English^[019] as well as in Russian. He offers a compelling argument for re-reading Homer’s IIliad and Odyssey with the geography of The Baltic rather than the Mediterranean as a guide. A synopsis of his research is available on the Internet^(a).

Stuart L. Harris has written a number of articles for the Migration and Diffusion website^(c) including a number specifying a Finnish location for Troy following a meeting with Vinci in Rome.

Jürgen Spanuth based his Atlantis theory^[015] on an unambiguous identification of the Atlanteans with the Hyperboreans of the Baltic region.

As a corollary to his own theory, Vinci feels that the Atlantis story should also be reconsidered with a northern European origin at its core. He suggests that an island existed in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark during the megalithic period that may have been Plato’s island. He also makes an interesting observation regarding the size of Atlantis when he points out that ‘for ancient seafaring peoples, the ‘size’ of an island was the length of its coastal perimeter, which is roughly assessable by circumnavigating it’. Consequently, Vinci contends that when Plato wrote of Atlantis being ‘greater’ than Libya and Asia together he was comparing the perimeter of Atlantis with the ‘coastal length’ of Libya and Asia.

Understandably Vinci’s theory is not without its critics whose views can be found on the Internet^(b).

^(a) http://www.estovest.net/letture/homerbaltic.html

^(b) http://mythopedia.info/Vinci-review.pdf

^(c) http://www.migration-diffusion.info/article.php?authorid=113