{"id":1972,"date":"2010-05-29T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/galanopoulos-angelos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:58:23","slug":"galanopoulos-angelos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/galanopoulos-angelos\/","title":{"rendered":"Galanopoulos, Angelos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelos<\/strong> Georgiou<\/strong> G<\/strong>alanopoulos<\/strong> (1910- 2001) <\/strong>was a Greek seismologist with the Athens Seismological Institute. To a great extent, his views on Atlantis are based on the work of Spyridon Marinatos<\/a>. Dr Galanopoulos\u2019 best-known work on Atlantis [<\/sup>263<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> was co-authored with the British archaeologist, Edward Bacon<\/a>.<\/strong> This book offers probably the best argument in support of the Minoan Hypothesis<\/a>. In 1960 he listed 19 of Plato\u2019s statements that could be related to Minoan Crete<\/a>\u00a0or Thera<\/a>[<\/sup>264<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>. The geologist, Dorothy Vitaliano<\/a>, considered this list in her book[<\/sup>306<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>and thought that up to 14 of them \u2018could be made to fit\u2019 Plato\u2019s description. Francis Hitching <\/a>also refers to this list in the work he edited on world mysteries[<\/sup>307<\/sup><\/a>.137]<\/sup>, while personally supporting a Minoan influence on Plato\u2019s account[<\/sup>578<\/sup><\/a>.166]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Galanopoulos was a supporter of the idea that the Egyptian hieroglyphic for 100 was misread as 1000 and so decreased all numbers in Plato\u2019s text by factor of ten<\/a>. This explanation does not stand up to scrutiny, as the Egyptian hieroglyphics are distinctly different and in any case the Egyptian priests, who presumably would have a clear understanding of their own inscriptions, would have carried out the interpretation.<\/p>\n

Immanuel Velikovsky<\/a> also proposed a factor ten reduction of Plato\u2019s 9,000 years in 1950[<\/sup>037<\/sup><\/a>.152]<\/sup>, although he was not certain regarding the specific source of the error. My own study of Plato’s large numbers in the Atlantis narrative led me to also conclude that all of them made more sense, is reduced by a factor of ten, but a definitive explanation of how this may have occurred has so far eluded me (see: Factor Ten<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In December 1969, the classical scholar, Moses I. Finley (1912-1986), wrote a critical review of ‘Atlantis’ for The New York Review of Books<\/em>(a)<\/sup>, to which Galanopoulos duly responded(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>There was a similar response from James W. Mavor<\/a> to Finley’s review of his Voyage to Atlantis<\/em>(c)<\/sup>.<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Eichner<\/a> noted[<\/sup>287<\/sup><\/a>.129]<\/sup> that Galanopoulos referred to the Pillars of Heracles in 1967 as a Platonic invention.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/1969\/12\/04\/back-to-atlantis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)\u00a0<\/sup> https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/1970\/03\/12\/the-end-of-atlantis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/1969\/12\/04\/back-to-atlantis-again\/<\/a> \u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angelos Georgiou Galanopoulos (1910- 2001) was a Greek seismologist with the Athens Seismological Institute. To a great extent, his views on Atlantis are based on the work of Spyridon Marinatos. Dr Galanopoulos\u2019 best-known work on Atlantis [263] was co-authored with the British archaeologist, Edward Bacon. This book offers probably the best argument in support of […]<\/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":[279,63,691,183,168,106,157,48,1408,31],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angelos-galanopoulos","tag-crete","tag-edward-bacon","tag-factor-ten","tag-henry-eichner","tag-immanuel-velikovsky","tag-minoan-hypothesis","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-spyridon-marinatos","tag-thera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","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=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66471,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/66471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}