Did Ancient Greeks Reach America Long Before Columbus?
The idea is based entirely on a new examination of a dialogue written by the Greek historian Plutarch, who lived from 46 to 119 AD.
Dr. Ioannis Liritzis, a professor of archaeonomy (the physics of archaeology) at the University of the Aegean studied Plutarch’s text and came up with a theory that ancient Greeks did indeed reach America.
Plutarch’s text, “On the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon,” is commonly known as “De Facie.” In the dialogue, Lambrias asks Sylla the Carthaginian to retell a story he had heard from the servants of the temple of Cronus in Carthage.
Sylla tells Lambrias about a traveler who visited the temple after returning from a long journey to a distant, vast continent.
Dr. Liritzis bases his theory on scientific data in a paper co-written with astronomer Panagiota Preka-Papadema, philosopher Konstantinos Kalachanis, meteorologist Chris Tzanis, and information technology consultant Panagiotis Antonopoulos.
According to the traveler in De Facie, new travelers would make the journey to the great continent roughly every thirty years, when the planet Saturn, which Greeks called Kronos, appeared in the Taurus constellation.
Dr. Liritzis and his colleagues claim that ancient Greeks traveled to that continent, which indeed was North America.
Analysis of De Facie takes clues from the geographic descriptions made at the time as well. Plutarch’s text mentions a “great continent” beyond the isle of Ogygia, which, according to the text, is itself a five-day trip by trireme west from Britain.
Plutarch also wrote that the Greek settlers accessed the “great continent” through a bay that lines up with the Volga River delta, the northern entrance to the Caspian Sea.
Liritzis referred to Google Earth and drew a line from this location across the Atlantic and found it led to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada.
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/29/anc...-columbus/
The idea is based entirely on a new examination of a dialogue written by the Greek historian Plutarch, who lived from 46 to 119 AD.
Dr. Ioannis Liritzis, a professor of archaeonomy (the physics of archaeology) at the University of the Aegean studied Plutarch’s text and came up with a theory that ancient Greeks did indeed reach America.
Plutarch’s text, “On the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon,” is commonly known as “De Facie.” In the dialogue, Lambrias asks Sylla the Carthaginian to retell a story he had heard from the servants of the temple of Cronus in Carthage.
Sylla tells Lambrias about a traveler who visited the temple after returning from a long journey to a distant, vast continent.
Dr. Liritzis bases his theory on scientific data in a paper co-written with astronomer Panagiota Preka-Papadema, philosopher Konstantinos Kalachanis, meteorologist Chris Tzanis, and information technology consultant Panagiotis Antonopoulos.
According to the traveler in De Facie, new travelers would make the journey to the great continent roughly every thirty years, when the planet Saturn, which Greeks called Kronos, appeared in the Taurus constellation.
Dr. Liritzis and his colleagues claim that ancient Greeks traveled to that continent, which indeed was North America.
Analysis of De Facie takes clues from the geographic descriptions made at the time as well. Plutarch’s text mentions a “great continent” beyond the isle of Ogygia, which, according to the text, is itself a five-day trip by trireme west from Britain.
Plutarch also wrote that the Greek settlers accessed the “great continent” through a bay that lines up with the Volga River delta, the northern entrance to the Caspian Sea.
Liritzis referred to Google Earth and drew a line from this location across the Atlantic and found it led to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada.
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/29/anc...-columbus/
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