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Part Three: Airburst over Olympia- the Victims.
Part Three: Airburst over Olympia- the Victims. © Nicholas Costa 2026 Melampus and the Daughters of Proetus . There is another mythical cycle whose focus was also upon Olympia and the airburst of c1284 BC. Its protagonists were depicted as the three daughters of Proetus. They were afflicted with a divinely induced illness, and were…
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Airburst Over Olympia, c1284 BC Part Two
Airburst Over Olympia c1284 BC, Part Two by Nicholas Costa ©2026 Letrini & The Sanctuary of Artemis Alpheiaia: Distance from Olympia: 22 km (13.7 miles) Etymology: Named after Letreus son of Pelops. The etymology of the word is considered as ‘unknown’. However the etymology of the name of Atreus, another son of Pelops, is commonly…
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Olympia- the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC
Olympia- the Airburst above Olympia c1284 BC. Part One ©Nicholas Costa 2026 After noting the modern viewpoints concerning why the Sacred Way to Olympia existed, I shall closely examine the route and the mythologies associated with it. They overwhelmingly point to an airburst. The myths have been consistently misunderstood and overlooked. The Sacred Way Nobody…
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Who was Pelops?
Who was Pelops By Nicholas Costa © 2026 Has anybody ever wondered how strange it is that when Pelops traveled from Anatolia his landing place was at Pisa on the north west of the Peloponnese rather than somewhere on the east coast of the Greek mainland? This underlines the fact that Pelops was never a…
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Who was Tantalus?
Who Was Tantalus? Part Two. © Nicholas Costa 2026 “Aye, and I saw Tantalus in violent torment, standing in a pool, and the water came nigh unto his chin. He seemed as one athirst, but could not take and drink; [585] for as often as that old man stooped down, eager to drink, so often…
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Who was Tantalus? Part One: Tantalis or Atlantis?
Who was Tantalus? Part One: Tantalis or Atlantis? © Nicholas Costa 2026 Pliny states: “In the same region there was [once] Tantalis, the capital of Maeonia, where Magnesia [ad Sipylum] now stands.” (Natural History 5. 31) Elsewhere Pliny discusses geological changes and mentions that Tantalis was destroyed by a catastrophe. He notes that where the…
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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?
Why Akhenaten began worshiping the Sun. Halley’s Comet and the 1:6 resonance with Jupiter.What really happened in Egypt c1352 BC? © Nicholas Costa 2026 In 1352 BC, Egypt entered the ‘revolutionary’ Amarna Period, marked by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (who became Akhenaten) abandoning traditional polytheism for the exclusive worship of the sun-disc Aten, and moving the…
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Tityus unmasked- the reason for Akhenaten’s worship of the Aten?
Tityus unmasked- the reason behind Akhenaten’s worship of the Aten? Part One © Nicholas Costa 2025 The Myth of Tityus: First phase: Zeus fell in love with Elara and hid her from his wife Hera. He placed Elara her deep beneath the Earth. Here she gave birth to Tityus. He was a giant who was…
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Who was Sisyphus? A Metaphor for Halley’s Comet 1404 BC?
Who was Sisyphus? A Metaphor for Halley’s Comet 1404 BC? © Nicholas Costa 2025 The Wikipedia entry for Sisyphus runs as follows: “In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos is the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus’s abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus’s wrath. His…
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Plato, Isocrates, and the true location of Atlantis
The Atlantis Narative- Mistaken Assumptions of its Translators © Nicholas Costa 2025 In 1841 Thomas-Henri Martin published Études sur le Timée de Platon (Studies on Plato’s Timaeus), in which he analyzed previous interpretations of the Atlantis story. He concluded that the location described by Plato was not a real, historical place but a literary creation…