Eumalos of Cyrene was a Greek copiyst it living in North Africa two or three generations after Plato ' s lifetime.
According to the 1830 appendix (guide of Malta written in Italian) Eumalos once transcribed a text stating that "the famous Ogyge was the king of Atlantis, the island that once was between Libia and Sicily and was submerged. This island was known as Decapolis Atlantika by our forefathers of Cyrene as well as by the ancient Greeks."
Ogyge lent his name to Ogygia, the island where Odysseus is kept by the nymph Calypso in the Odyssey. Several ancient writers hypothesized that Ogygia was actually Malta.
The guidebook translation of Eumalos names that Malta is "nothing more than the summit of the Mount Atlantika ".
According to the 1830 appendix (guide of Malta written in Italian) Eumalos once transcribed a text stating that "the famous Ogyge was the king of Atlantis, the island that once was between Libia and Sicily and was submerged. This island was known as Decapolis Atlantika by our forefathers of Cyrene as well as by the ancient Greeks."
Ogyge lent his name to Ogygia, the island where Odysseus is kept by the nymph Calypso in the Odyssey. Several ancient writers hypothesized that Ogygia was actually Malta.
The guidebook translation of Eumalos names that Malta is "nothing more than the summit of the Mount Atlantika ".
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