{"id":14375,"date":"2011-05-31T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T07:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2024-07-28T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T18:10:20","slug":"sarantitis-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarantitis-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarantitis, George"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Sarantitis (1954- ) <\/strong><\/strong>was born in Athens and is by profession an electronics \"Sarantitis\"<\/a>engineer. He is also a serious student of Ancient Greek history and literature whose research(a)<\/sup> enabled him to present\u00a0three papers to the 2008 Atlantis Conference<\/a>. These included a revised translation of many of the keywords and phrases in Plato\u2019s Atlantis texts. He quotes Strabo\u2019<\/a>s Geographica<\/em> (3.5.5.20) to demonstrate the multiplicity of locations on offer for the Pillars of Heracles. He places Atlantis in North Africa at the Richat Structure<\/a>,\u00a0with the Pillars of Heracles situated in the Gulf of Gabes <\/a>which formerly\u00a0led to an inland sea where the chotts<\/a> of Tunisia and Algeria are today, \u00a0as well as a number of other lakes and rivers in what is now the Sahara.<\/p>\n

He posits a number of large inland seas in Africa including a much larger Lake Chad(f)<\/sup>. The 2014 May\/June edition of Saudi Aramco World<\/em> has an article(c)<\/sup> on the remnants of the \u2018Green Sahara\u2019,\u00a0during what is\u00a0known technically as the African Humid Period (9000-3000 BC).\u00a0Sarantitis also claims that at one stage in the distant past Libya<\/a> had been a peninsula. In a June 2015 report the University of Royal Holloway in London revealed that the size of Lake Chad was dramatically reduced in just a few hundred years(d)<\/sup>. A similar map showing enormous inland North African lakes 13,000 years ago are included in Taylor Hansen’s<\/a> The Ancient Atlantic<\/em> [<\/sup>0527<\/sup><\/a>.36]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Sarantitis offers details of his theories on his extensively illustrated Plato Project <\/em>website(a)<\/sup>, which I wholeheartedly recommend readers to visit. He includes a rather technical forensic analysis of Plato\u2019s use of myth. Sarantitis also suggests that the \u2018unfinished\u2019 Critias is in fact continued at the beginning of Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/em> (1.32-34).<\/p>\n

Some of Sarantitis\u2019 sections on the Methodology of Mythology<\/em> will be difficult for non-academic readers, such as myself, to fully comprehend. For me, his proposal that there were two Atlantean Wars, which took place in 9600 BC and 8600 BC(e)<\/span><\/sup> is extremely difficult to accept, since those wars were with Athens<\/a> and Egypt<\/a> that did not even exist at those dates! I find it difficult to accept this apparent abandonment of commonsense and the science of archaeology.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Sarantitis published his theories in The Apocalypse of a Myth<\/em> in Greek. Now (2017) that work has been translated into English and is currently being prepared for publication with a new title of Plato’s Atlantis: Decoding the Most Famous Myth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There is now an extensive video clip\u00a0Q & A session\u00a0available on Sarantitis’\u00a0website(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Sarantitis’ theories have been been given additional exposure with a new 2024 Jack Kelley documentary entitled The Atlantis Code<\/em> that is now available on Amazon and YouTube. The official website for the film includes a number of interviews with Kelley and other commentators(g)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has highlighted in his newsletter No. 225 one of the fundamental errors in Sarantitis’ theory is his claim that Atlantis as the Richat Structure existed around 10,000 BC. Franke provides a link to an earlier paper debunking this idea(h)<\/sup>. I fully concur with Franke and would add that no one has explained how Atlantis in West Africa could attack Athens millennia before it existed. Not only is the suggestion plain silly, but the proposal that 12,000 years ago, when little more than logboats(i)<\/sup> existed, an attack was launched on a non-existent Athens, nearly 4000 km away by land (3000 km by sea) from the ‘Structure’, is pure nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(a)<\/span><\/sup> Plato Project \u2013 Timeus & Critias: The ultimate explanation (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/span><\/sup> FAQ\u2019s \u2013 Plato Project (archive.org)\u00a0<\/a>
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(c)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/archive.aramcoworld.com\/issue\/201403\/last.lakes.of.the.green.sahara.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(d) <\/sup>Largest freshwater lake on Earth was reduced to desert dunes in just a few hundred years | ScienceDaily (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> Proceedings of the 2008 Atlantis Conference[<\/sup>750<\/sup><\/a>.389]<\/sup>(editor S.Papamarinopoulos)<\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/06\/150629162542.htm<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.empirebuilderproductions.com\/the-atlantis-puzzle<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(h)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-10000-bc-engl.htm<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(i)<\/sup> https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/news\/uncovering-culture-bronze-age-logboats\/<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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