{"id":18962,"date":"2012-12-13T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18962"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:16:08","slug":"casaubon-isaac-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/casaubon-isaac-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Casaubon, Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Isaac<\/strong> <strong>C<\/strong><strong>asaubon <\/strong><strong>(1559-1614) <\/strong>was born in Geneva, where he became a professor of Greek. He later worked in France and England, but finally settled on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/casaubon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18969 alignright\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"casaubon\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/casaubon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>editing Greek literature as a more rewarding occupation. Among his works, was a 1587 commentary on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strabo\/\">Strabo<\/a> and it was this production which inadvertently brought him into the Atlantis controversy, in the early part of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>In commenting on Strabo 2.3.6., Casaubon refers to<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aristotle\/\"> Aristotle <\/a>doubting the existence of the Achaeans walls, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/homer-3\/\">Homer <\/a>in the <em>Iliad<\/em>. Casaubon notes that this statement was taken by Posidonius, who then\u00a0inserted Plato\u2019s Atlantis in place of the Achaean walls. Franke explains\u00a0that this was done &#8220;in order to reject this comparison.&#8221; Nowhere does Casaubon attribute to Aristotle any claim that Atlantis was an invention by Plato.<\/p>\n<p>However in 1816, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/delambre-jean-baptiste-joseph-n\/\">Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre <\/a>when referring to Casaubon\u2019s commentary, hastily misinterprets the passage and describes Atlantis as the object of Aristotle\u2019s doubt. This error was then repeated by later writers, until gradually the idea reached critical mass, so that in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, it became \u201creceived wisdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, in 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke <\/a>published a complete refutation of this incorrect addition by Delambre, in his forensic study <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aristotle-and-atlantis-n\/\"><em>Aristotle and Atlantis<\/em><\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\">880<\/a>]<\/sup>, an English translation of the original German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) was born in Geneva, where he became a professor of Greek. He later worked in France and England, but finally settled on editing Greek literature as a more rewarding occupation. Among his works, was a 1587 commentary on Strabo and it was this production which inadvertently brought him into the Atlantis controversy, [&hellip;]<\/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":[1682,133,1681,123,1255,1680,393,692],"class_list":["post-18962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achaean-walls","tag-aristotle","tag-delambre","tag-homer","tag-illiad","tag-isaac-casaubon","tag-strabo","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962","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=18962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65954,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962\/revisions\/65954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}