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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 »
Andrews, P.B.S.
P.B.S. Andrews is an English historian who has been involved in a variety of controversial subjects, including the dating of Pride and Prejudice, the Piltdown Hoax(a) and the location of Ithaca. In 1967, in a short article[056] in the journal Greece and Rome, he expressed the view the 2nd millennium BC explosion of Thera had inspired the Atlantis story. In addition, he suggested that Plato’s declaration that the island of Atlantis was larger than Libya and Asia combined was the result of either a scribal error or a misreading of Solon’s notes. The alteration of a single letter would have rendered the translation as noting the island being located ‘between’ Libya and Asia. This explanation is somewhat suspect as the majority of Atlantis candidates, such as the Atlantic could not be described in those terms. In fact, Thera is the only place that is exactly between Libya and Asia is Egypt!
However, Andrews’ idea never gained any great support and in recent years, the explanation offered by Thorwald C. Franke is that the Egyptian priest was describing the military power of Atlantis being greater than the combined might of Egypt’s traditional enemies, the Libyans and the Asians. This interpretation is more compatible with the Greek word used for ‘greater’, meizon being used with its primary meaning of ‘greater’.
Nevertheless, in 2021, Diego Ratti in his book, Atletenu [1821] questioned a number of the English translations of the Greek text, offering his own where he deemed it appropriate. One such instance concerns ‘meizon‘ (Tim. 24e & Crit.108e), where Ratti, like Andrews, ignored its primary meaning and insisted it should be read as ‘between’ Libya and Asia, where, conveniently, Avaris clearly is!