An author-led research project · 46 writings in one connected argument
Atlantis, the Amazons,
and the Birth of Athene
This research project proposes that Atlantis may be understood through western Anatolia, through Bronze Age catastrophe, through mythic memory, and through later sacred geography. It reads Plato’s narrative in its second-millennium context, alongside Egyptian records and Hittite tablets.
The research framework presented here is an argument, not settled historical consensus. Every original writing is preserved unabridged, with its own sources linked for you to judge.
“Solon actually visited the land of Atlas on his way back from Egypt!”Read the case
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Hittite orthostats from Sakçagözü, southern Turkey. Photo: Ingeborg Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The Case · editorial orientation
Four propositions introduce four arguments
A concise orientation to the author’s four-argument framework. The four propositions below lead into the four argument paths.
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A proposed location
Plato’s island kingdom relocated to western Anatolia, with Ephesus at its heart and the “pillars” re-read as the proposals of the first argument.
Begin: Atlantis was destroyed c1327 BC All of Argument I2
Two catastrophe horizons
A two-horizon chronology: a proposed airburst over Ephesus c1327 BC, and a second over Olympia c1284 BC — read in landscape and in myth.
The 1327 BC horizon The 1284 BC airburst All of Argument II3
Witnesses, cult and sacred geography
St. Paul’s route, Aphrodite and Athene at Iconium, and the later textual memory of Atlantis in Revelation are read as the proposed witnesses of the third argument.
Begin: The Millennial Mission All of Argument III4
The sky remembered in myth
Cometary returns are read as a historical clock, from Akhenaten and the Aten to Sisyphus, Phrixus, Ixion, the Argonauts and Helen.
The cometary clock All of Argument IVA schematic, not a map
Proposed world of the argument
This panel arranges a few named points the way the project connects them. It is deliberately schematic — proportions and placements are editorial, not geographically exact.
Schematic diagram of the project’s proposed relations: Ephesus (also called Apasa) and western Anatolia (Arzawa) in the east; Olympia and Corcyra to the west; St. Paul’s missionary journeys, the Sibylline Oracles, and the Book of Revelation as later witnesses preserving the memory. Marks for 1327 BC and 1284 BC indicate proposed horizons.
- Places named in the argument
- Proposed catastrophe horizons
- Textual witnesses later than the Bronze Age
Reading sequence
Four arguments, one connected case
The writings are gathered into four major arguments. Each opens with a starting writing and continues in the order the author builds it — you can read straight through or dive where you like.
Argument I · 1327 BC
I. The Location: Atlantis in Anatolia
Plato’s account read against Egyptian and Hittite evidence. From a dated destruction horizon to Ephesus, Libya, Ethiopia and the Amazons — the author’s proposed locating of Atlantis in western Anatolia.
Argument II · 1284 BC
II. The Catastrophes: 1327 BC and 1284 BC
Two proposed catastrophe horizons read through Tantalus, Pelops, and the sanctuary at Olympia. Follow the second impact horizon, its remembered victims, and the myths of Leda and Helen that preserved the sky.
Argument III · c. 50 AD / mythic memory
III. Witnesses, Cult and Sacred Geography
Tracing Paul’s route as a palimpsest of older sacred geography: Aphrodite, Athene and Plato at Iconium, and the apocalyptic memory of Atlantis in Revelation — the project’s proposed witnesses in cult and text.
Argument IV · 1404 — 1198 BC
IV. The Sky Remembered in Myth
Cometary returns as historical clock. From Akhenaten and the Aten to Sisyphus, Tityus, Phrixus, Ixion and the Argonauts — the author’s reading of myth as remembered witness to the sky.
The complete case
Each argument, in reading order
Argument I · 1327 BC
I. The Location: Atlantis in Anatolia
- Atlantis was destroyed c1327 BC
- Journey to Atlantis - Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, Part Two
- Plato’s ‘Libya’ was in Asia Minor
- Ethiopia - an ancient joke
- Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part one)
- Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part two)
- Atlantis and the Sibylline Oracles (part two - Eridanus)
- Asia Minor: Atlantis, Asteroids, and the Birth of Athene
- Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, and the Book of Revelations. Part One
- Part Two: Mythical Allusions to the Airburst over Ephesus c1327 BC
- Cercopes and Heracles - Victims of the Airburst above Ephesus c1327 BC
- Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles (part one)
- Atlantis in the Sybilline Oracles-(part three - Corcyra)
- The True Location of the Pillars of Heracles. Part One
- Where was Cerne?
- Where was Gadeira? The original locations of Gadeira, Erythia, and Cotinousa
- Plato, Isocrates, and the true location of Atlantis
- Myrina’s Journey to Atlantis
- Who was Sekhmet?
- Who was the Egyptian God Seth?
Argument II · 1284 BC
II. The Catastrophes: 1327 BC and 1284 BC
- Who was Tantalus? Part One: Tantalis or Atlantis?
- Who was Tantalus?
- Who was Pelops? c1284 BC
- Olympia - the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC
- Airburst Over Olympia, c1284 BC Part Two
- Part Three: Airburst over Olympia - the Victims.
- Leda and the Celestial Catastrophe of c. 1284 BC
- Pliny, Atlantis, and Tantalus
- Perseus and Pegasus: Mythical Metaphors: Airbursts c1383 -c1285 BC
Argument III · c. 50 AD / mythic memory
III. Witnesses, Cult and Sacred Geography
- 2345 BC · St Paul’s Journey to Atlantis - Part One: In search of Aphrodite
- Journey to Atlantis, Part Two: The Birth of Aphrodite - a new analysis of a historical event
- 1795 BC · Journey to Atlantis - Iconium, the Birth of Athene, and Plato. Part One
- Journey to Atlantis - Iconium, the Birth of Athene, Plato and the Whirling Dervishes. Part Two
- Atlantis in the Book of Revelation
Argument IV · 1404 — 1198 BC
IV. The Sky Remembered in Myth
- 2345 BC · Ancient Markers of Traumatic Events: The Era of Menophres, Sothis, Osiris, and Noah.
- Who was Sisyphus? A Metaphor for Halley’s Comet 1404 BC?
- Why Akhenaten began worshiping the Sun. The Precursor to the Destruction of Atlantis. Halley’s Comet and the 1:6 resonance with Jupiter. What happened in Egypt c1352 BC?
- Tityus unmasked - the reason for Akhenaten’s worship of the Aten?
- Halley’s Comet 1334 BC – the myth of Phrixus
- 1266 BC Halley’s Comet: Ixion, the Golden Lamb, and the Voyage of the Argonauts
- Halley’s Comet 1266 BC - Ixion and the Centaurs
- Halley’s Comet 1266 BC, Argo Navis, and the Argonaut Myth: A Celestial Hypothesis
- 1266 BC Halley’s Comet and the Golden Lamb
- 1198 BC · Helen of Troy: Celestial Memory, Myth, and the Late Bronze Age Sky
For first-time readers
Begin with these readings
Eight original writings, in the order a new reader can best follow the case. Each opens the unabridged source text in this project’s reader.
Where the case begins: a proposed, dated destruction horizon
Atlantis was destroyed c1327 BCHow the project re-reads Plato’s geography against Asia Minor
Plato, Isocrates, and the true location of AtlantisThe coastal argument at Ephesus, followed on the ground
Journey to Atlantis - Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, Part TwoA second city and a second horizon: Tantalis or Atlantis?
Who was Tantalus? Part One: Tantalis or Atlantis?The proposed 1284 BC airburst at the sanctuary of Zeus
Olympia - the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BCSacred geography: Atlantis remembered in a late text
Atlantis in the Book of RevelationThe cometary clock: Halley’s returns and Egyptian records
Why Akhenaten began worshiping the Sun. The Precursor to the Destruction of Atlantis. Halley’s Comet and the 1:6 resonance with Jupiter. What happened in Egypt c1352 BC?Where the sky argument lands: Helen and 1198 BC
1198 BC · Helen of Troy: Celestial Memory, Myth, and the Late Bronze Age Sky
Supporting your reading
Research guide & tools
Use these companions to follow the argument, its proposed dates, and its terminology. Original texts remain unabridged — what you read in each writing is the full source wording.
Further writings
Writings not yet placed inside one of the four arguments remain fully accessible here and in the complete index below.
The complete reference index
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This is the complete reference index of the project, not the homepage’s purpose: every original writing, unabridged. Search filters the index and every result links to the full text in the reader.
Argument
46 writings in the index
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1198 BC · Helen of Troy: Celestial Memory, Myth, and the Late Bronze Age Sky
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Leda and the Celestial Catastrophe of c. 1284 BC
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1266 BC Halley’s Comet and the Golden Lamb
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Halley’s Comet 1266 BC, Argo Navis, and the Argonaut Myth: A Celestial Hypothesis
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Halley’s Comet 1266 BC - Ixion and the Centaurs
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Atlantis in the Sibylline Oracles (part one)
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1266 BC Halley’s Comet: Ixion, the Golden Lamb, and the Voyage of the Argonauts
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Atlantis in the Sybilline Oracles-(part three - Corcyra)
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Halley’s Comet 1334 BC – the myth of Phrixus
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Part Three: Airburst over Olympia - the Victims.
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Airburst Over Olympia, c1284 BC Part Two
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Olympia - the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC
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Who was Pelops? c1284 BC
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Who was Tantalus?
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Who was Tantalus? Part One: Tantalis or Atlantis?
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Why Akhenaten began worshiping the Sun. The Precursor to the Destruction of Atlantis. Halley’s Comet and the 1:6 resonance with Jupiter. What happened in Egypt c1352 BC?
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Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, and the Book of Revelations. Part One
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The True Location of the Pillars of Heracles. Part One
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Tityus unmasked - the reason for Akhenaten’s worship of the Aten?
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Part Two: Mythical Allusions to the Airburst over Ephesus c1327 BC
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Who was Sisyphus? A Metaphor for Halley’s Comet 1404 BC?
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Where was Gadeira? The original locations of Gadeira, Erythia, and Cotinousa
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Where was Cerne?
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Plato, Isocrates, and the true location of Atlantis
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Perseus and Pegasus: Mythical Metaphors: Airbursts c1383 -c1285 BC
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Cercopes and Heracles - Victims of the Airburst above Ephesus c1327 BC
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Pliny, Atlantis, and Tantalus
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Journey to Atlantis - Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, Part Two
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Journey to Atlantis - Iconium, the Birth of Athene, Plato and the Whirling Dervishes. Part Two
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1795 BC · Journey to Atlantis - Iconium, the Birth of Athene, and Plato. Part One
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Journey to Atlantis, Part Two: The Birth of Aphrodite - a new analysis of a historical event
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2345 BC · St Paul’s Journey to Atlantis - Part One: In search of Aphrodite
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Atlantis in the Book of Revelation
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Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part two)
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Finding the true identity of the Amazons (part one)
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Atlantis and the Sibylline Oracles (part two - Eridanus)
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Atlantis was destroyed c1327 BC
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Plato’s ‘Libya’ was in Asia Minor
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Ethiopia - an ancient joke
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Contact
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Myrina’s Journey to Atlantis
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Who was Sekhmet?
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Who was the Egyptian God Seth?
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2345 BC · Ancient Markers of Traumatic Events: The Era of Menophres, Sothis, Osiris, and Noah.
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Asia Minor: Atlantis, Asteroids, and the Birth of Athene
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Common sense approach
Status labels and argument groupings organize the index and do not certify or independently verify historical claims. Dates and interpretive connections are the author’s research framework, not independently verified consensus.