{"id":24849,"date":"2014-09-29T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:45:50","slug":"adams-mark-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/adams-mark-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams, Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Adams<\/strong> is an American writer from New York State with the best-selling Turn Right at Machu Picchu<\/em>[976<\/a>]<\/sup> to his credit. He \"Mark-Adams-350x350\"<\/a>has spent recent years researching the subject of Atlantis, travelling extensively in the process. One of his trips took him to Ireland, where I had the pleasure of meeting him and having many discussions on the subject.<\/p>\n

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His\u00a0book, Meet me in Atlantis<\/em>[<\/sup>1070<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, gives readers an up-to-date overview of modern Atlantis theories that is both comprehensive and fair. I am aware of the amount of research that Adams has put into this work, interviewing a wide range of individuals, including myself {4400\/1P}<\/sup><\/span>, on both sides of the Atlantic. He has an easy-to-read style and while I do not agree with all of his views, I sincerely believe that this book should be compulsory reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject.<\/p>\n

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Following the initial publication of his book Adams gave a number of promotional media interviews and in May 2016, following the publication of the paperback edition, he wrote an article(a)<\/sup> listing three ‘problems’ that he believes should be kept in mind when embarking on a search for Atlantis.<\/p>\n

“1. <\/em>Every Single Reliable Clue We Have about Atlantis comes from Plato<\/em><\/p>\n

2.Plato Was a Pythagorean<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Plato Was a Philosopher, not a Historian”<\/em><\/p>\n

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For my part, I do not see these as problems, just matters for consideration rather than concern.<\/p>\n

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In Adam’s book, he refers to Stavros Papamarinopoulos <\/a>as “the world’s most respected Atlantologist” [p.191] However, it is interesting to compare Adams’ problems with the comments of Papamarinopoulos in a paper delivered to the 2005 Atlantis Conference <\/a>in which notes that critics of Plato’s Atlantis “carefully neglect to mention that only Plato and not the historians mention the following:<\/em><\/p>\n

1. The Achaean Athens of the 12<\/em>th<\/em> century BC described in detail in Critias,<\/em><\/p>\n

2. The end of the Achaean world in the 12<\/em>th<\/em> century BC,<\/em><\/p>\n

3. The assault of the Sea Peoples in East Mediterranean in the 12<\/em>th<\/em> century BC,<\/em><\/p>\n

4. The position of the giant westerly continent and<\/em><\/p>\n

5. ‘Atlantis’,<\/em><\/p>\n

All these have been proved except the fifth. Plato was not aware of the 12<\/em>th<\/em> century BC turmoil but he described its events in general terms correctly.” <\/em>[629<\/a>.555]<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Although I do not subscribe to No. 4, as you can see in the America<\/a> entry, Adams’ view of Plato as a historian is contradicted by the highly regarded Papamarinopoulos.<\/p>\n

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Jason Colavito<\/a>, not unexpectedly, has offered a review of Adam’s book(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/3-problems-remember-when-trying-find-atlantis-005863?nopaging=1<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> Review of “Meet Me in Atlantis” by Mark Adams – Jason Colavito (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

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