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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 »
  • Joining The Dots

    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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Acosta, José de

Jose deAcostaJosé de Acosta (1540-1600) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who worked in South America and the Caribbean and is sometimes referred to as the “Pliny of the New World”. Acosta studied the mythologies of the natives of Peru and was convinced that the American Indians had originated in Asia in his Historia natural y moral de las Indias[592]. This view was to gain supporters in the following centuries including Thomas Jefferson.

>Acosta was highly sceptical of Plato’s Atlantis story, commenting in his ‘Historia’ that “Whether Plato wrote it as history or allegory, what I find obvious is that everything he said about the island, beginning with the dialogue of Timaeus and continuing to the dialogue of Critias cannot be told as true, except to children and old women.”<

A 2002 English translation of his Historia was published by Duke University[965].