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Socratous, Costas

Costas Socratous is a Cypriot author and no stranger to controversy as some years ago he claimed that Umberto Eco’s celebrated book, The Name of the Rose, had been based on a work of his, O Aforismenos. He lost his legal challenge.

In 2010, when Enrico Mattievich published his Journey to the Mythological Inferno in which he claimed that the ancient Greeks had discovered America, Socratous alleged that he had made the same claim in a 1995 book(a), apparently unaware that Mattievich had originally published his book in Portuguese in 1992 and in 1986 had delivered his preliminary findings in a lecture(b). Apart from which Henriette Mertz had published the same idea in the early 1960s. Oops!

Socratous’ book places Atlantis in the Atlantic with Troy as its capital!

(a) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.greek/DXkU4JRrVeA   See Archive 2433

(b) https://phoenicia.org/Chavin_Press_Release.html