{"id":1697,"date":"2010-05-25T16:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eumelos-of-cyrene\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:23:15","slug":"eumelos-of-cyrene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eumelos-of-cyrene\/","title":{"rendered":"Eumelos of Cyrene"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/strong>umelos of <\/strong>C<\/strong>yrene<\/strong> was named after the town, a former colony settled by the Greeks of Thera<\/a>, where he toiled as an historian. Cyrene was situated in what is now Cyrenaica<\/a> near today\u2019s village of Shahat in Libya<\/a>. Eumelos originally came from Thera and was contemporary with Plato. It therefore seems to me that if Eumelos had a Theran background, he would have been able to support the Minoan Hypothesis rather than locate Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean.\u00a0This seldom quoted writer wrote an extensive H<\/em>istory of <\/em>L<\/em>ibya,<\/em> of which a fragment was translated into Italian by Giuseppe Perricciuoli Borzesi[<\/sup>589<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Anton Mifsud<\/a> and his collaborators highlighted[<\/sup>209<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> Eumelos\u2019 references to Atlantis, which place it on an island located between Sicily<\/a> and Libya and where it was subsequently submerged. Eumelos also noted that Atlantis was known as Decapolis, a possible reference to the ten (city-) states of Atlantis. Understandably, this has been claimed as evidence for identifying the present day Maltese Islands as remnants of Plato\u2019s lost civilisation.<\/p>\n

In November 2013, Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> published a claim in his newsletter\u00a0 that Eumelos\u2019 document was a forgery and that an inscribed stone, also mentioning Atlantis, which was\u00a0 \u2018discovered\u2019 in Malta around the same time, was another fake. While the stone is now an undisputed fake, the document has a much stronger claim to have been real. Linking the two may be seen as unfair.<\/p>\n

Franke\u2019s paper refers to Mifsud\u2019s use of Eumelos\u2019 Atlantis comments and consequently, Mifsud, at my request, has penned a preliminary rebuttal of Franke\u2019s conclusions. Furthermore, in a throwaway remark at the end of his paper, Franke makes the unsubstantiated claim that Eumelos never even existed. I find it strange that he spent two pages questioning the provenance of Eumelos\u2019 History, which would have been unnecessary if he could have demonstrated that Eumelos never existed. Although it is difficult to prove a negative, I think this assertion was unwarranted.\u00a0Nearly two years later, Jason Colavito published a paper in which he also claimed that Eumelos\u2019 History<\/em> was a hoax(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

In order for readers to form an opinion, I have provided a link to Franke\u2019s paper(a) <\/sup>and for ease of reference, have linked this entry to a full copy of\u00a0 Mifsud\u2019s rebuttal(b)<\/sup> on this website. However, I think it isdisappointing that Franke has not responded to Mifsud’s comments as most readers will not be able to adequately research all the issues involved and arrive at a firm conclusion<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-malta-hoax.htm\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(4610mP)<\/sup><\/p>\n

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(b)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201020210246\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/document-010114b\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax) – JASON COLAVITO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eumelos of Cyrene was named after the town, a former colony settled by the Greeks of Thera, where he toiled as an historian. Cyrene was situated in what is now Cyrenaica near today\u2019s village of Shahat in Libya. Eumelos originally came from Thera and was contemporary with Plato. It therefore seems to me that if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,2259,960,3456,184,132,101,692],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anton-mifsud","tag-atlantis","tag-eumelos-of-cyrene","tag-giuseppe-perricciuoli-borzesi","tag-libya","tag-plato","tag-sicily","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66307,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/66307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}