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Sándor Csizi
Csizi, Sándor
Sándor Csizi is a Hungarian researcher with a keen interest in ancient Greek literature. Inevitably, this brought him to the works of Homer, Plato among others, that in turn inspired him to develop his Atlantis theories. In common with other researchers, Csizi has identified Homer’s Scheria with Plato’s Atlantis, placing it in the Atlantic, west of Portugal(a) . He also argues that the “chronology suggests that Atlantis sank sometime between 6000 and 4000 BC. But this data can be further reduced!” (b) Csizi has embellished his concept of Atlantis with the suggestion that the ancient Egyptian port of Pharos, now submerged, had been an Atlantean colony(c) !
(a) https://www.academia.edu/120284730/Atlantis_and_the_lost_book_of_Marcellus
(b) https://www.academia.edu/121187548/Time_of_the_sinking_of_Atlantis
(c) https://www.academia.edu/128445192/THE_LAST_PORT_OF_ATLANTIS
Marcellus
Marcellus was a Greek geographer, about whom very little is known. He wrote just before or just after the start of the Common Era, offering what is probably the earliest independent reference to Atlantis after Plato. He states that it consisted of ‘seven islands and also three others of immense extent’, the middle one of which was dedicated to the Atlantean god Poseidon. The magnitude of this island was ‘one thousand stadia ‘, and the inhabitants of it preserved the remembrance of their ancestors, or the Atlantic island that had existed there, and was truly prodigiously great; which for many periods had domination over all the islands in the Atlantic Sea.’
The above passage from Marcellus’ now lost Ethiopic History, is cited by Proclus in his commentary on Timaeus.
One interpretation is that in this extract the Atlantic ‘Sea’ is the Tyrrhenian Sea and that the three ‘immense’ islands referred to are Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily! Outside the Aegean, the Central Mediterranean is the only location within striking distance of Athens that has three very large islands together with numerous smaller ones.
>>Sándor Csizi, a Hungarian researcher, who favours an Atlantis location for Atlantis, has published a paper on Marcellus(a) that “explores the references made to Atlantis in Plato’s Timaeus, focusing on two fragments attributed to Marcellus, as reported by Proclus. It discusses the implications of these fragments for understanding the historical and literary context of Atlantis, including debates about Marcellus’s potential authorship and the categorization of his work. The analysis extends to examining the narrative characteristics of ancient literature associated with fantastical geography, the interplay of myth and history, and the significant roles of different scholars in interpreting these fragments. The paper ultimately raises questions about the credibility of sources and the nature of early fictional narratives.”<<
(a) https://www.academia.edu/120284730/Atlantis_and_the_lost_book_of_Marcellus