Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City (30 page)

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Abbot, Dallas,
251
,
253
,
257

Academy of Plato

Aristotle’s Lyceum compared to,
181

author’s visit to,
183
–84

founding of,
172

Acropolis

spring located on,
195
,
196

topsoil flooded away,
22
,
144
,
195
,
196
–97

Adam, James,
262

Aelian,
184

Agadir.
See
Morocco

Ages in Chaos
(Velikovsky),
248

Ahnenerbe research institute,
86
–87

Air France Flight 447,
148

Akrotiri site

archaeological discoveries at,
162

author’s visit to,
168

books inspired by,
142

Gallo’s plans to explore,
151
,
154
–55

Marinatos’s excavation at,
141

Mavor’s hopes for,
143

Allegory of the Cave,
165

Alvarez, Luis and Walter,
249
–50

Americas.
See
New World

Anaximander’s map,
57
–58

Annas, Julia,
27

Antarctica,
8
,
88
–92,
204
–5,
224
,
226

Aporia
(impasse),
273
–74

Archytas,
171
,
173
–74

ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment),
84

Arganthonios,
61

Aristotle

Atlantis story confirmed by,
182

Atlantis story dismissed by,
9
,
13
,
181
–82

classification of event types by,
228

genius of,
5
–6

Lyceum founded by,
181

Plato compared to,
6
,
181

relationship with Plato,
13
–14

as a top ten philosopher,
5

Aristotle and Atlantis
(Franke),
182

Armstrong, Karen,
194

Army of Atlantis, numbers of men in,
39
–40

Asher, Maxine,
83

Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE),
84

Asteroid impacts.
See also
Cataclysms; Meteors

Burckle Crater and Atlantis,
250
–51

end of Cretaceous period,
248
–49

Masse on the risk of,
255
–56

Masse’s Great Flood theory,
252
–54

NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program,
257
n

ocean impacts,
255

Tunguska River, Russia,
256

Velikovsky’s theories,
248
–49

Athens

Acropolis topsoil washed away,
22
,
144
,
195
,
196
–97

ancient natural disasters in,
195

approach to Atlantis from,
194
–98,
279
–80

in Atlantis story,
195

spring on the Acropolis,
195
,
196

Syntagma Square protest,
182
–83

Atlantipedia

as clearinghouse for Atlantologists,
30

evenhanded style of,
28

O’Connell’s creation of,
28
,
29

publishing party for,
37
–38

Atlantis Beneath the Ice
(Flem-Ath),
92

Atlantis Hypothesis, The
,
184

Atlantis of the North
(Spanuth),
95

Atlantis
research vessel,
152

Atlantis story of Plato.
See also
Dates in Plato’s story; Numbers in Plato’s story

Americas in,
204
–5

anthropological approach to,
77
–78

Atlantis layout illustrated,
25

author’s conclusions about,
285

believability of,
30
–32

claimed to be true,
9
,
14
–15,
17
–18,
30
,
239

confirmed by Aristotle,
182

contagion of,
7
,
8
–9,
10
,
212

Critias
part summarized,
21
–26

dismissed by Aristotle,
9
,
13
,
181
–82

dismissed by scholars,
16
,
27
–28,
41

distinctive characteristics of Atlantis in,
3

euhemerism and,
41
,
47

five main points,
276

Helike as source material for,
185
–86,
188

influence of,
6

Katsonopoulou’s skepticism about,
189

location criteria in,
32
–33

mentions before Plato,
199
–200,
201
–2

Pythagoreanism in,
266

Solon as source of,
18
,
20
,
30
–31,
77

stripping out contaminants,
77
–78,
119

Timaeus
part summarized,
17
–19

as typical of Plato’s writing,
14
,
15

unreliability of,
20
–21

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
(Donnelly),
44
–46,
129
,
196
,
247
–48

Atlantis: The Truth Behind the Legend
(Galanopoulos),
136

Atlantology, growth industry of,
8
–9

Atlas, king,
23
,
232

Augustine, St.,
138

Autonomous water vehicles (AUVs),
152

Avienus, Rufus Festus,
71
–73

Balabanova, Svetlana,
205

Ballard, Robert,
145
–46,
147
–48

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland,
213
–18,
261

Barber, Paul,
213

Bibliotheca Historica
(Diodorus),
232

Bimini Road,
85

Black Sea, creation of,
146

Black stone.
See
Tricolor stone

Blavatsky, Madame,
86

Bonsor, George,
62
,
63

Bremer, John,
267
,
269
,
270
,
272
–74

Brumbaugh, Robert,
260
–62,
263
,
268
–69

Brumbaugh Triangle,
262

Bulls and bull cults

author’s conclusions about,
279

Knossos, Crete,
130
–31

Malta,
125

Minoan Hypothesis and,
34

Cádiz coast.
See also
Doñana National Park; Tartessos

as Atlantis location candidate,
34
–35

founding of Cádiz/Gades,
55

Library of Alexandria at,
108
n

Phoenician colony on,
64
–65

Caesar’s Column
(Donnelly),
52

Çakir, Mehmet,
54

Calypso’s Search for Atlantis
documentary,
142

Cameron, James,
147
,
151

Canals.
See
Checkerboard canals

Canary Islands,
7

Cancho Roano,
68
,
75

Carpenter, Rhys,
58
,
72
,
237

Cataclysms.
See also
Floods; Tsunamis

affirmed in Plato’s
Laws
,
255

asteroid-impact theories,
248
–51

Burckle Crater and Atlantis,
250
–51

catastrophism,
247
–55

collective amnesia about,
249

Crater Lake explosion,
215

Darwin’s laws trumped by,
257

disappearance of Atlantis in,
19

in Donnelly’s
Ragnarok
,
52
,
247
–48

end of Cretaceous period,
249
–50

Helike’s sudden end,
184
–85,
187
–88

Hurricane Sandy,
245

Iberian Peninsula,
76
,
80

Krakatoa eruption,
133

Masse’s Great Flood theory,
252
–54

Muck’s catastrophism,
249

multiple, in
Critias
,
21
–22

multiple, in
Perilous Planet Earth
,
245
–46

multiple, in
Timaeus
,
15
,
18
,
247

Pinatubo eruption,
246
n

scholarly skepticism about,
47

scientific skepticism about,
247
,
250

Thera eruption,
34
,
133
,
138
–39,
146
,
215
–17,
281

Tunguska River impact, Russia,
256

Velikovsky’s theories,
248
–49

volcanic explosivity index for,
246

Cave of the Ideas,
165

Cayce, Edgar,
84
–85,
142

Celestino, Sebastián,
74
–75

Character types, Plato’s,
261
–62

Checkerboard canals

in Guatemala and Bolivia,
208

Malta cart ruts and,
116
–17,
120
,
121
–23,
127

Papamarinopoulos’s theory and,
208

Chevrons as tsunami evidence,
251

Christianity, influence of
Timaeus
on,
13

Circles.
See
Concentric circles or rings

Cocaine in Egyptian mummies,
205
–6,
223

Coleman, Patrick

author’s interview with,
48
–50

“History Happy Hour” talk by,
51
–53

Columbus, Christopher,
40
–41

Concentric circles or rings

canal piercing,
23

at Cancho Roano site,
68
,
75

in
Critias
,
22
–23

in Doñana National Park,
63
,
74

illustrated,
25

Malta lacking,
125

mentions before Plato,
201
–2

in Morocco,
3
,
231
,
235
–36,
240
,
241
,
243
–44

natural causes of,
202
–4

in Newgrange,
38

Papamarinopoulos’s location for,
202
–3

in Poverty Point, LA,
33

in Santorini,
136
,
164
,
235

as symbols, not data,
277
–78

tricolor stones formed along with,
203

Copper

Atlantis in America theory and,
33

in Cádiz coast area,
34

Cyprus named after,
33
,
209

Lake Superior,
33
,
209
,
224

Papamarinopoulos’s theory and,
208
–9

in southwest Spain,
64

Cotinine in Egyptian mummies,
205

Cousteau, Jacques,
140
,
142
,
186

Crantor,
179

Crater Lake explosion,
215

Cretaceous period end,
249
–50

Critias
(Plato)

abrupt ending of,
26
,
273

Atlantis story summary,
21
–26

nine thousand in,
272
–73

numbers in,
23
,
24
,
263

obscurity of,
11

Plato’s Mathematical Imagination
on,
260
–61

proved data in,
198

“Curse of Akkad, The,”
126

Cymatosyrmos
(tsunami),
202

Cyprus, copper from,
33
,
209

Darwin, Charles,
46

Dates in Plato’s story

adjusted to 2200 BC,
118
,
125
–26

confusing nature of,
39

in
Critias
,
21
,
22

Freund on symbolism of,
67
–68

Galanopoulos’s adjustment of,
137
–38

hieroglyphic symbols for,
137
–38

lunar calendar for,
209
–10

Malta-as-Atlantis theory and,
118

Papamarinopoulos’s theory and,
209
–10

reliability of,
117
–18

in
Timaeus
,
263

Wickboldt’s adjustment to,
105

Democracy, Plato’s dislike of,
170
–71

Description of Greece
(Pausanias),
61
–62

Destructions.
See
Cataclysms

Deucalion flood

confirmed by Aristotle,
182

date of,
138

described,
22
,
144
–45

in the Parian Chronicle,
106
,
138

similarities to other great floods,
22
,
36
,
145

Dictatorships, Plato’s dislike of,
171

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
(Smith),
222