@Byrd:
> Notice that Franke is simply reading up on translations of the Greek text.
> He's not reading the original Greek text.
O my god, o my god, you still have not got the point!
The Greek original sentences are examined word by word!
Your problem is: You think Franke construed an artificial problem in order to dissolve it, later, and thus to impress less educated readers. This is
not the case.
Everybody who is familiar with the scientific literature on Plato's Atlantis knows all-to-well the statement: "Aristotle is/was/seems to
be/likely/surely/easy to see/without any doubt/most probably ...... was against the existence of Atlantis, what we easily can see from Strabo 2.3.6
and 13.1.36. Period." Did you never read this?!
You yourself recognized above, that there is something wrong with this ... thank you, Byrd! With some more effort (much more effort!) you could have
written the same book! :-)
See also here (Jason Colavito wrote this one year after the German version was released):
www.jasoncolavito.com...
@Harte:
Most of the university scientists on this Atlantis conference where there to *deny* rather than to support this or that Altantis hypothesis. Mark
Andre Gutscher did deny the Spartel bank hypothesis. Or they concentrated on an aspect of the Atlantis story without an existence hypothesis.
Hypotheses on this conference were mostly put forward by "independent researchers" (like I am, too). The organizers are university scientists, but not
philologists, they are geologists and engineering university teachers.
Ok, you are right under a certain perspective: There are such scientists.
This biblical maximalist Freund is also a university scientist, if you will.
But still these are few, and they are not classical philologists, archaeologists. The last ones of this sort were John V. Luce and Eberhard Zangger, I
think.
PS: Thank you for your continued discussion!
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