{"id":1669,"date":"2010-05-25T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:17:13","slug":"cosmas-indicopleustes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cosmas-indicopleustes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmas Indicopleustes"},"content":{"rendered":"

C<\/strong>osmas<\/strong> I<\/strong>ndicopleustes<\/strong> was a 6th-century AD theologian and geographer from Alexandria who became a monk in later life. He wrote of Atlantis as a large island in the western ocean, punished by god with submergence. He also added a twist to the tale by recording a tradition that Noah had resided in Atlantis. Cosmas was probably the first writer to use Plato\u2019s tale as evidence for the veracity of the Bible<\/a>. He contended that Atlantis was the Garden of Eden<\/a> and that Plato’s 10 kings of Atlantis<\/a> were the 10 generations between Adam and Noah!<\/p>\n

His only extant book, C<\/em>hristian<\/em> T<\/em>opography,<\/em> is a bizarre work that includes support for a Flat (Square)\u00a0Earth.\u00a0A translation[1245<\/a>]<\/sup> by J. W. McCrindle was published by the Hakluyt Society in 1897(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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><\/span><\/strong>It seems to me that Cosmas has added little to the Atlantis story except for further confusion. However, Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has published an essay on the relevance of Cosmas Indicopleustes to Atlantis studies(c)<\/sup>.<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

One commentator described\u00a0his work as a \u2018monument of unconscious humour.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jason Colavito<\/a> has traced(a)<\/sup> some of\u00a0Graham Hancock\u2019s <\/a>theories back through Donnelly<\/a>, Faber<\/a>, and\u00a0Bailly<\/a> and even as far as Cosmas.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/a-byzantine-claim-about-atlantis-and-noahs-flood<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/earth\/ct\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Kosmas Indikopleustes \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cosmas Indicopleustes was a 6th-century AD theologian and geographer from Alexandria who became a monk in later life. He wrote of Atlantis as a large island in the western ocean, punished by god with submergence. He also added a twist to the tale by recording a tradition that Noah had resided in Atlantis. Cosmas was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[974,128,383,4382,955,4094,108,4796,1266,2904,5045,107,7334],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cosmas-indicopleustes","tag-flat-earth","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-george-stanley-faber","tag-graham-hancock","tag-hakluyt-society","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-j-w-mccrindle","tag-jason-colavito","tag-jean-sylvain-bailly","tag-kings-of-alantis","tag-noah","tag-thorwal-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66083,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/66083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}