Papamarinopoulos, Stavros *

Published May 30, 2010

Stavros Papamarinopoulos is a retired Professor of Applied Geophysics, formerly at the University of Patras in Greece. In 2003 he led a team from his university in an attempt to locate the tomb of Alexander the Great in the cemetery quarter of Alexandria.

Papamarinopoulos was one of the organisers of the Atlantis Conferences of 2005 ^[0629], 2008 ^[0750] and 2011. He was also the editor of the published proceedings of those conferences. Furthermore, he delivered a number of papers to all three conferences. I am informed that after a delay of many years the publication of the proceedings of the third conference is now imminent.

Papamarinopoulos is currently (2024) the president of Society for the Study of the Ancient Hellenic Mythology (EMAEM)^(r). I’m informed that the “society is a non-profit association being entirely supported by its friends and members aiming among other topics to the elaboration and promotion of matters associated with the Ancient Hellenic Mythology, which are highlighted by publishing books and papers in international journals and currying out monthly public lectures and meetings by distinguished scholars, researchers and academics.” The society will be linking to Atlantipedia in the near future.

Mark Adams, author of Meet Me in Atlantis^[1070] describes Papamarinopoulos as “the world’s most respected Atlantis expert”^(h).

In his paper A Bronze Age Catastrophe in the Atlantic Ocean?, he points out some of the pitfalls associated with the interpretation of prehistoric events when using the language of 4^th century B.C. “For instance, a literary differentiation between ‘island’ and ‘peninsula’ did not exist in alphabetic Greek before Herodotus’ in the 5^th century B.C. Similarly, there was not any distinction between the coast and an island in Egyptian writing systems, up to the 5^th century B.C.” Papamarinopoulos maintains that a lack of knowledge of such linguistic shortcomings has been used unwittingly by many who deny the existence of Atlantis.

Papamarinopoulos personally supports the idea of an Iberian Atlantis^(f)(g). He presented this view in a series of six papers⁽^b)(j-o)presented to a 2010 International Geological Congress in Patras, Greece. Papamarinpoulos has written several other papers including one which discusses Phaeton as a comet and its possible coincidence with the Trojan War^(a).

Stavros Papamarinopoulos at the 2005 Atlantis Conference highlighted^(p) the part played by earthquakes in the description of the ancient Athenian Acropolis in the Atlantis narrative, which he saw as part of a 50-year ‘seismic storm’ which ravaged the Eastern Mediterranean around the 12th century BC ^[629.499]. Amos Nur & Eric H. Cline discuss the same intense seismic activity in a paper on the Academia.edu website^(q).

Papamarinopoulos is also co-author with John S. Kopper of a paper^(c)which concluded that there is “a strong correlation between times of abrupt physical and cultural changes in man and reversals of the earth’s magnetic field.”

In 2012, Papamarinopoulos et al published a paper^(d)(e) that carefully analyses astronomical data enabling them to conclude that a solar eclipse of 30^th October 1207 BC occurred just five days after Homer’s Odysseus returned to Ithaca.

In the book Science and Technology in Homeric Epics⁽ⁱ⁾ Papamarinopoulos has a chapter included entitled Atlantis in Homer and Other Authors Prior to Plato, which was based on a paper presented at the international symposium, Olympia, Greece, August 27–30, 2006.

^(a) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Papamarinopoulos/publication/226643821_A_Comet_during_the_Trojan_War/links/0deec5304b9d3d9276000000.pdf

^(b) https://www.researchgate.net/search?q=ATLANTIS%20IN%20SPAIN%20I

^(c) Human Evolution and Geomagnetism on JSTOR

^(d)(PDF) A new astronomical dating of the Trojan war’s end | Stavros P Papamarinopoulos – Academia.edu *

^(e)The exact date of the return of Odysseus to Ithaca (q-mag.org) *

^(f)https://atlantis.fyi/sources/atlantis-in-spain-part-v

^(g)https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/geosociety/article/view/11164/11216

^(h) https://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2015/04/i_met_with_the_world_s_leading_atlantis_expert_will_we_ever_locate_plato.html

⁽ⁱ⁾ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-8784-4_37

^(j) https://atlantis.fyi/sources/atlantis-in-spain-part-ii

^(k) https://atlantis.fyi/sources/atlantis-in-spain-part-iii

^(l) https://atlantis.fyi/sources/atlantis-in-spain-part-iv