by Mark Adams
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, 257n
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, 108n
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, 246n
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
Diffusionism
of Donnelly, 47
of Freund, 61
as racism, 221, 222
Diodorus Siculus, 232
Dionysus I, 171
Dionysus II, 173
Divided Line, Plato’s, 267–70
Divine Craftsman, 179, 180, 265
Dodecahedron, 271–72
Doñana National Park. See also Cádiz coast; Tartessos
cataclysms in, 79, 80
figurines found at, 64–65, 74–75
in Finding Atlantis documentary, 61, 63–64
Hinojos Project, 69, 70, 71, 73–74
Schulten’s excavations in, 62–63
similarities to Atlantis, 63–64, 67
Donnelly, Ignatius
Athens ignored by, 196
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, 247–48
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by, 44–46, 129, 196
cardboard cutout in Saint Paul, 48
Coleman’s defense of, 48–49, 51–52
diffusionism of, 47
dubious research by, 50–51, 53
influence of, 45, 46
later books by, 52–53
library of, 49–50
modern villification of, 47
youth of, 43–44
Doumas, Christos
on Atlantis’s rings, 235
on Atlantologists, 166
author’s meeting with, 163–67
importance of, 159
pamphlet written by, 162–63
on sandalmakers keeping their place, 166, 193
skepticism about Atlantis by, 164–67, 184
Earth Crust Displacement Theory, 88–92
Egyptians
New World drugs in mummies of, 205–6, 223
perspective on Thera eruption, 216–17
Sea Peoples invasion of, 279–80
Einstein, Albert, 87, 88–89
Elemental polyhedrons, 271–72
Elephants, 207–8, 237
Epic of Gilgamesh, 145
Eratosthenes, 185
Eriksson, Leif, 220
Erlingsson, Ulf, 38
Euhemerism, 41, 47
Eumalos manuscript, 115–16, 126
Evans. Arthur, 129–30, 197
Exodus, 216–17
Feder, Kenneth, 47
Festival of the Sacrifice, 238–39, 243
Finding Atlantis documentary, 60–61, 63–64, 66, 68, 69–70
Five Ages of Man, 147
Flem-Ath, Rand, 88–89, 90–92, 145
Floods. See also Cataclysms; Tsunamis
Acropolis topsoil washed away by, 22, 144
creating the Black Sea, 146
from cymatosyrmos (Greek tsunamis), 202
Deucalion, 22, 36, 106, 138, 144–45, 146–47, 182
in Gilgamesh epic, 36, 145
Masse’s Great Flood theory, 252–54
Noah’s ark story, 22, 36, 145
Parian Marble on, 106
from post-Ice Age melt, 145–46, 154, 155
source of water for, 36–37
Franke, Thorwald, 182
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries (Feder), 47
Freund, Richard
author’s visit with, 65–68
at Cancho Roano site, 68, 75
discrepancies explained by, 67–68
Doñana project usurped by, 66, 68, 69–70
e-mails received by, 66
figurines found by, 64–65, 74–75
in Finding Atlantis documentary, 60–61, 63–64, 66, 68, 69–70
Papamarinopoulos’s contact with, 207
on Tartessos as Tarshish as Atlantis, 62
Frost, K. T., 131–32, 196
Gadeiriki peninsula, 201
Galán, José María, 79, 81–82
Galanopoulos, Angelos, 136–37, 139
Gallo, David
accomplishments in finding things, 148
author’s visit with, 148–56
interest in Atlantis by, 150–51, 153
Minoan shipwreck sought by, 150–51, 153
seafloor mapping by, 149–50
Gibraltar. See Pillars of Heracles
Gilgamesh epic, 36, 145
Gladstone, William, 46
Golden Age in Greece, 15–16
Golden section or ratio, 269–72
Google Earth Ocean extension, 6–7
Great Cryptogram, The (Donnelly), 52–53
Hagar Qim temple, Malta, 123–24
Hanno, 237
Hapgood, Charles, 89, 90, 226
Helike
archaeological discoveries at, 187–88
author’s conclusions about, 281–82
Helike Project search for, 187
Marinatos’s search for, 185, 186
meaning of poros and, 186, 187
Poseidon connection of, 185, 188
source material for Plato from, 185–86, 188
sudden end of, 184–85, 187–88, 281
Helike: The Real Atlantis documentary, 187
Herculaneum papyri, 114–15
Herodotus
on African circumnavigation, 238
as father of history, 21
Tartessos mentioned by, 57, 58, 61
Hesiod, 147, 216
Heyerdahl, Thor, 220
Hierarchical constraint satisfaction, 230–31
Hieroglyphic symbols for numbers, 137–38
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Himmler, Heinrich, 87
Hinojos Project, 69, 70, 71, 73–74
Holocene Impact Working Group (HIWG), 250
Homer, real places in myths told by, 56, 57
Hörbiger, Hans, 87, 88
Hübner, Michael
admired by other Atlantologists, 229
author’s conclusions about his theory, 282–83
author’s visits with, 1–4, 229–44
belief in Plato’s story by, 241
data analysis by, 1–2, 35, 230–31
described, 229
evidence gathering by, 242
Morocco travel advice from, 234
multiple trips to Morocco by, 234
objectivity of theory of, 229
O’Connell on his theory, 116
sources outside Plato used by, 232–33
tsunami in theory of, 2
Hurricane Sandy, 245
Hyperdiffusionism. See Diffusionism
Iberian Peninsula
as Atlantis location candidate, 200
cataclysms in, 76, 80
Ice Age, rise in oceans after, 145–46, 154, 155
Impasse (aporia), 273–74
Ingstad, Helge, 220
In Search Of . . . movies and TV shows, 7–8
International Conference on the Atlantis Hypothesis, 184
Islam, influence of Timaeus on, 13
Island, meanings in ancient Greek, 198–99
Jacobovici, Simcha, 66, 101–2
Jerome, Saint, 138
Johnson, Brian, 12, 13, 14, 15–16
Johnson, Janet, 137, 278n
Jowett, Benjamin, 131–32
Katsonopoulou, Dora, 186–89, 192, 193, 281
Kehoe, Alice Beck, 220–24
Kennedy, Jay, 264–65
Kircher, Athanasius, 90, 259
Knossos, Crete
bull theme at, 131
excavation of, 129–30
Linear B script at, 130, 197
Kolaios, 57, 58
Kontaratos, A. N., 30, 32–33
Kon-Tiki expedition, 220
Krakatoa eruption, 133
Kühne, Rainer
Asperger’s syndrome of, 100–101
Atlantis story seen as fiction by, 102, 285
on Atlantis vs. Tartessos, 99
author’s visit with, 93–102
Doñana rings noted by, 63, 64
first exposure to Atlantis story, 94–95
Medinet Habu mentioned by, 97, 199–200
on Plato’s measurements, 102
search for Atlantis by, 95–99
on Spanuth’s theory, 95
Lake Superior copper, 33, 209, 224
Lange, William, 153–55
Laws (Plato), 15, 255, 263, 264
Lee, Desmond, 254
León, Ángel, 74
Lescot-Layer, Michelle, 205
Levels of understanding, Plato’s, 262, 268–69
Libby, Willard, 139
Library of Alexandria, 108n
