{"id":31141,"date":"2016-09-15T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T08:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31141"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:20:52","slug":"freret-nicolas-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/freret-nicolas-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9ret, Nicolas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NICOLAS FRERET French antiquary and chronologist. Date: 1688 – 1749<\/p><\/div>\n

Nicolas Fr\u00e9ret <\/strong>(1688-1749)<\/strong> was a French scholar with a particular interest in history and mythology, which inevitably led to his study of the Atlantis question. <\/b>He was unhappy with accepting that Plato’s 9,000 ‘years’ was a reference to solar years, but preferred instead to consider that units of three or four months were used. <\/b>As a consequence, he concluded that the Atlantean War took place in 3380 BC.<\/p>\n

To make Plato\u2019s 9,000 years more credible, commentators such as Giovanni Carli<\/a>, also in the 18th century and Rafinesque<\/a> in the 19th, have suggested that Plato\u2019s years were in fact \u2018seasons<\/a>\u2019. The idea has gained further traction in more recent years with support from Radek Brychta<\/a> and the late Axel Hausmann<\/a> and most recently Rosario Vieni<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e9ret was one of the first to suggest Syrtis<\/a> Major as the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

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