{"id":3820,"date":"2010-06-10T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rudberg-gunnar\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T07:16:20","slug":"rudberg-gunnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rudberg-gunnar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudberg, Gunnar *"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gunnar<\/strong> Rudberg <\/strong>(1880-1954)<\/strong> was a Swedish professor of classical philology \"\"<\/a>at the University of Kristiania. He\u00a0is one of a number of writers who have\u00a0identified ancient Syracuse in Sicily<\/a> as the inspiration for Plato\u2019s city of Atlantis[531<\/a>]<\/sup>. His\u00a0paper has been translated for the first time into English by Cecelia Murphy, the project being edited and funded by the German researcher Thorwald C. Franke<\/a>[881<\/a>]<\/sup>. The original was published in Swedish over a century ago in 1917.<\/p>\n

Rudberg begins his work with a review and refutation of the more popular Atlantis theories of his day. As this\u00a0paper was published less than 40 years after Donnelly\u2019<\/a>s seminal work, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World<\/em>[021<\/a>]<\/sup>,\u00a0\u00a0was written, much of the material will appear dated, particularly as many of today\u2019s better known theories were still many years in the future.<\/p>\n

Rudberg moves on to outline his own view that Plato, who had first-hand experience of Sicily, \u201cwhen developing his portrayal of Atlantis, had the Dionysian\u2019s Syracuse in mind\u201d<\/em> but added \u201cI do not claim that this is an exhaustive explanation\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

In spite of the date of the original monograph, this English translation is a valuable addition, to the Atlantis literature of the early 20th<\/sup> century, in that language.<\/p>\n

Franke has reported that the German magazine Focus, published an article on Rudberg\u2019s views(a) <\/sup> in October 2013. More recently, Franke’s book has been reviewed by Anna Afonasina, a lecturer in philosophy at Novosibirsk State University(b)<\/sup> in Siberia.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>Santorin, Kreta oder doch Troja?: Wo das sagenumwobene Atlantis wirklich lag – FOCUS Online (archive.org)<\/a> (German) *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>Review: Gunnar Rudberg, Atlantis and Syracuse, by Anna S. Afonasina (atlantis-scout.de)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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