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Atlantipedia will be wound down in 2023. After nearly twenty years compiling Atlantipedia on my own, and as I am now approaching my 80th birthday, I have decided to cut back on the time I dedicate to developing this website. An orderly conclusion rather than an enforced one is always preferable before the Grim Reaper […]Read More »
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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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Bettini, Leonardo
Leonardo Bettini (1939-1982) was a member of Egerton Sykes’ Atlantis Research Centre and was the author of “The Italian Atlantis” published in Genoa in 1963.>He suggested that the Atlantis narrative had a Phoenician rather than a Greek origin(a).<He also favoured a Caribbean location for Plato’s island.
Bettini was also something of a political anarchist.
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(a) Atlantis, Vol.16, No.2, April 1963<