{"id":2176,"date":"2010-05-30T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/philo-of-alexandria\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:01:22","slug":"philo-of-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/philo-of-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Philo of Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Philo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23280\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Philo.jpg\" alt=\"Philo\" width=\"176\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>P<\/strong><strong>hilo <\/strong><strong>of Alexandria <\/strong><strong>(20 BC-50 AD)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>also known as Philo the Jew,\u00a0was a philosopher based in Alexandria. He was a firm supporter of the reality of Atlantis\u2019 existence.\u00a0\u00a0He wrote on the subject in his <em>De Aeternitate Mundi (<\/em><em>On the Eternity of the Earth) <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>1423<\/sup><\/a><sup>.v.141]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup>\u00a0where he is thought by some to be quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theophrastus\/\">Theophrastus<sup>(a)<\/sup><\/a>, Aristotle\u2019s successor. This view is held by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke <\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\">0880<\/a>.131]<\/sup> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/luce-john-victor\/\">J. V. Luce <\/a>in <em>Atlantis: Fact or Fiction <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">0522<\/a>.51]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that from around 330 BC and for nearly a thousand years<sup>(b)<\/sup> the Strait of Messina was known as <em>Fretum Siculum<\/em>, which translates as the Sicilian Strait, prompting Philo to write \u201c<em>Are you ignorant of the celebrated account which is given of that most sacred Sicilian strait, which in old times joined Sicily to the continent of Italy?\u201d <\/em><sup>[v.139]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Note how Philo refers to Italy as a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/continent\/\">continent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>[<\/sup><sup>1423<\/sup><sup>.v.141]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+ <\/span><\/strong><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/deaeternitatemu00philgoog\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/deaeternitatemu00philgoog<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\/yonge\/book35.html\">http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\/yonge\/book35.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/pleiades.stoa.org\/places\/462494\">https:\/\/pleiades.stoa.org\/places\/462494<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philo of Alexandria (20 BC-50 AD)\u00a0also known as Philo the Jew,\u00a0was a philosopher based in Alexandria. He was a firm supporter of the reality of Atlantis\u2019 existence.\u00a0\u00a0He wrote on the subject in his De Aeternitate Mundi (On the Eternity of the Earth) [1423.v.141]+\u00a0where he is thought by some to be quoting Theophrastus(a), Aristotle\u2019s successor. 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