{"id":34796,"date":"2017-03-14T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=34796"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:08:55","slug":"goti-marco-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/goti-marco-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Goti, Marco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco<\/strong> Goti <\/strong>is the Italian author of The Island of Plato<\/em>[<\/sup>1430<\/sup><\/a>]\u00a0<\/sup> in which he attempts to demonstrate \"\"<\/a>that Atlantis was situated in Greenland<\/a>. I say attempts because, in my opinion, he fails dismally. He starts by locating the Pillars of Heracles in the Atlantic, with one side being the basaltic columns at the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland and their counterparts across the sea in Scotland’s Isle of Staffa. This idea was touted by W. C. Beaumont<\/a> over sixty years earlier(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The Cyclopean Islands off the east coast of Sicily near Mt. Etna referred to by Homer in his Odyssey<\/em> are also known for their basaltic columns. <\/b>At Gunung Padang<\/a> and Nan Madol<\/a> there are also numerous columns with comparable volcanic origins.<\/p>\n

Goti\u00a0then moves on to Iceland, which he identifies as Thule<\/a> and spends too much time describing a variety of unpronounceable locations there. He eventually heads for Greenland, which he contends must be Atlantis, as it is greater than Libya and Asia combined, ignoring that Plato was referring to might rather than size. Goti posits the huge plain described by Plato to have been situated in the centre of Greenland, ignoring the fact that ice cores dated to over 100,000 years have been identified there, and apart from which, the huge island is not submerged. <\/b>He offers two papers with extracts from his book(b)(c)<\/sup> as well as some evidence of neolithic activity in Greenland(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Felice Vinci<\/a>, who clearly offered some inspiration to Goti, wrote the Foreword to the book and also provided Goti with an archaic Athens in Sweden<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Goti decries other promoters of Atlantis theories for ignoring details in Plato’s account that don’t fit their particular ideas. He then he moves Athens to Sweden, has Atlantis above water for hundreds of thousands of years, includes no elephants or two annual crops, and does not explain how Greenland Atlanteans controlled southern Italy as far as Tyrrhenia<\/a>, all of which earns a thumbs down from me.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.theflatearthsociety.org\/library\/pamphlets\/Is%20Britain%20the%20Lost%20Atlantis.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> The Geometry of Atlantis according to Plato (1\/2) – The Tapestry of Time (larazzodeltempo.it)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> The Geometry of Atlantis according to Plato (2\/2) – The Tapestry of Time (larazzodeltempo.it)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> Marco Goti – The Tapestry of Time (larazzodeltempo.it)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marco Goti is the Italian author of The Island of Plato[1430]\u00a0 in which he attempts to demonstrate that Atlantis was situated in Greenland. I say attempts because, in my opinion, he fails dismally. He starts by locating the Pillars of Heracles in the Atlantic, with one side being the basaltic columns at the Giants Causeway […]<\/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":[305,7795,1123,533,5187,72,1365,5188,2957,5186,48,75,164,2439,1816],"class_list":["post-34796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-athens","tag-cyclopean-islands","tag-elephants","tag-felice-vinci","tag-giants-causeway","tag-greenland","tag-iceland","tag-isle-of-staffa","tag-italy","tag-marco-goti","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-sweden","tag-thule","tag-tyrrhenia","tag-w-c-beaumont"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796","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=34796"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66557,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34796\/revisions\/66557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}