Thorwald C. Franke

The historical-critical approach towards Plato's Atlantis as a real place.

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

Today, 24 Sep 2026, Eberhard Zangger and Thorwald C. Franke met in Frankfurt / Germany to talk about Plato's Atlantis.

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@res_10000 This is a too simplisitic view of Plato's Atlantis. You might get better information here. You will especially find academics in dissent with your view. https://t.co/u9vXoBAuR9

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New publication by Eberhard Zangger: The Troy = Atlantis hypothesis and which academic methods Zangger encountered (scroll down):
https://t.co/YtYxwJbl34

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@ApitiusHofmann Actually, neither of the two has such a scoring function. You might think of Michael Hübner?

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

Today, 24 Sep 2026, Eberhard Zangger and Thorwald C. Franke met in Frankfurt / Germany to talk about Plato's Atlantis.

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

The Sicilian Ignatius Donnelly: in 1858, a certain Lionardo Vigo began to write an Atlantis hypothesis which centered around the western Mediterranean, encapsulating his political and cultural ideas in his Atlantis hypothesis, like Ignatius Donnelly. See https://t.co/ebVUlrMkUF

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@booksoftitans You might be interested in a recent Atlantis conference, where Plato's stoy was dissected by philologists and experts for literary studies? https://t.co/73wgv4Yu4J

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Unnoticed Atlantis Conference 2024 Turin: Where Professor Nesselrath acknowledged that Thorwald C. Franke successfully argued against Aristotle as the author of the invention statement in Strabo 2.3.6. Details:
https://t.co/vX3U1OvXed
#Plato #Atlantis #Timaeus

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

Unnoticed Atlantis Conference 2024 Turin: Where Professor Nesselrath acknowledged that Thorwald C. Franke successfully argued against Aristotle as the author of the invention statement in Strabo 2.3.6. Details:
https://t.co/vX3U1OvXed
#Plato #Atlantis #Timaeus

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

Does Atlantis appear in the Odyssee? Caleb Howells checks a hot candidate ..... and dismisses it. (But there may be other candidates.)
https://t.co/xzwCZmrLky

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What did the ancient philosopher Longinus think about Plato's Atlantis? Get the full information here on Atlantis-Scout:
https://t.co/GE3jBtsWb6
#Plato #Timaeus #Atlantis #Longinus

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Aliens and the pyramids? Irony of ironies .... :-)

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@CamillaLxx I can imagine that there are many influences!

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Discussion with AI: Atlantis not an allegory? An exciting exchange of arguments:
https://t.co/X6RtOkgAbd
#Plato #Timaeus #Atlantis

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@InuitKodiak Yes, but keeping politics out will be difficult.

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@ulfketill It is at least safe to say that Aristotle was more a Platonist than thought in previous decades.

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Rare Atlantis booklet by Angelos G. Galanopoulos, for free download: You cannot buy or loan this, and here it is, in the Download Center of Atlantis-Scout: https://t.co/MldTjYYGgP

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@noemonas This may be, but where are the Cyclops, the Laestrygones, Circe, the Lotophages, Skylla in the sky? They are not there.

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

Intelligent approach to decipher the enigma of Homer's Odyssee: The adventure stories correspond to the lies Odysseus is telling in Ithaca: This is Key!
-- I doubt the part with stars and Greek temples preserving knowledge in monster stories. But the basic observation is correct.

[Noemon Acragas @noemonas]

https://t.co/YgE9y6ZZON

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@noemonas I doubt. The abstract of the book you mentioned (Astronomy and Constellations in the Iliad and Odyssey) says that the constellations did not change. So, where are the Cyclops, Laistrygones, Circe, Skylla, etc. in the sky? They are not there.

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@noemonas have a perfect correspondance in the Ithaca lying stories. Therefore, it's not the exact same story. Similar, yes. Same, not. Thing of the Lotophages, the Laistrygones, Calypso, Circe, Scylla. (2/2)

[Thorwald C. Franke @Atlantis_Scout]

@noemonas I agree on the basic idea of the correspondance of the Ithaca lying stories with the adventure stories. What I doubt is the idea that there is a star mapping behind it. And preservation of stories in temples as monster and star stories? No. Also, not all adventure stories (1/2)