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OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
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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Dionysus of Miletus (t)
Dionysus of Miletus, also known as Skytobrachion (leather arm) lived in Alexandria in the middle of the 2nd century BC and wrote a book entitled Argonautica. It is frequently claimed that he lived in the 6th century BC, but this is highly questionable. His work was among that of a number of writers that Diodorus Siculus drew upon when he wrote his account of the North African Amazons and their conflict with the Atlanteans. An extensive manuscript copy of Dionysus’ book was allegedly found among the papers of Pierre Benoit, the novelist, but subsequently ‘lost’.