Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City (31 page)

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

Higgins, Michael,
196

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
,
278
n

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,
108
n

Linear B script,
130
,
197

Logos
vs.
mythos
,
194

Lost Atlantis
(Luce),
196

Luce, John V.,
194
,
196

Lyceum of Aristotle,
181

MacGillivray, Alexander,
146
–48

Malta

as Atlantis candidate,
35
,
113
–15

author’s conclusions about,
282

author’s visit to,
111
–28

bull cults on,
125

cart ruts on,
116
–17,
120
,
121
–23,
127

Eumalos manuscript and,
115
–16,
126

Pillars of Heracles and,
114
–15,
118

Plato’s dates and,
118
,
125
–26

Podarcis filfolensis
lizard of,
123

strange facts about,
111
–12

temples on,
123
–24

tour of,
120
–28

tricolor stone on,
125

Malta: Echoes of Plato’s Island
(Mifsud),
112
,
113

Manifest Destiny doctrine,
222

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
(Hapgood),
89
,
226

Marinatos, Spyridon

with Mavor’s expedition,
140
,
141

Minoan Hypothesis and,
132
–35,
164

search for Helike by,
185
,
186

Massaliote Periplus
,
72

Masse, W. Bruce

on Atlantis,
254
–55

author compared to Plato by,
257
–58

author’s visit with,
251
–55,
257
–58

described,
251
–52

Great Flood theory of,
252
–54

myth and oral tradition reconsidered by,
252

on the risk of catastrophes,
255
–56

on Velikovsky,
257

Mavor, James,
139
–42

Maximus of Tyre,
233

McClain, Ernest,
266

McIntosh, Gregory,
224
–26

Measurements.
See
Numbers in Plato’s story

Medinet Habu hieroglyphics,
97
,
199
–200

Mediterranean

in Anaximander’s map,
58

early exploration of,
55
–57,
58
–59

Uluburun shipwreck in,
54
–55

Meno
(Plato),
10
,
273
–74

Mercator projection maps,
225

Meteors.
See also
Asteroid impacts

rings caused by,
202
–3

in Russia,
247

Mifsud, Anton

character of,
112
–13

Hübner admired by,
229