from http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/2C*.html
Gotta be another season for the brothers with that hypothesis. 
?" then if that was true knowledge of America was nearly 1500 years before Columbus?
Strange enough the Atlantis franchise of claims have branched out?
Here is some one claiming Atlantis is in Canada ( I WONDER IF THE OAK ISLAND GUYS HAVE NOT HEARD OF IT YET?)
Atlantis in Canada
Even so not to be out done Bolivia is having a crack at the claim.
Atlantis in Bolivia
What I find interesting is "Diodorus Siculus refers to Atlantians still surviving in his day but apparently somewhere in the Americas"
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history Bibliotheca historica, much of which survives, between 60 and 30 BCE.
" The Americas
Bibliotheca historica (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη ἱστορική, "Historical Library") is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus. It consisted of forty books, which were divided into three sections. The first six books are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Egypt (book I), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia (II), of North Africa (III), and of Greece and Europe (IV–VI). In the next section (books VII–XVII), he recounts the history of the world starting with the Trojan War, down to the death of Alexander the Great. The last section (books XVII to the end) concern the historical events from the successors of Alexander down to either 60 BC or the beginning of Caesar's Gallic War in 59 BC. (The end has been lost, so it is unclear whether Diodorus reached the beginning of the Gallic War, as he promised at the beginning of his work, or, as evidence suggests, old and tired from his labors he stopped short at 60 BC.) He selected the name "Bibliotheca" in acknowledgement that he was assembling a composite work from many sources. Of the authors he drew from, some who have been identified include: Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius and Posidonius.
Diodorus' immense work has not survived intact; only the first five books and books 11 through 20 remain. The rest exists only in fragments preserved in Photius and the excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
While I am sure he took much information from the writings of Timaeus? Yet I can see no reference to Americas in Timaeus?
The first known reference to "Americas" was on 1507 map.
The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on what is now called South America on the main map. As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci.
The map is drafted on a modification of Ptolemy's second projection, expanded to accommodate the Americas and the high latitudes. A single copy of the map survives, presently housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. But as far I can see there is no mention of Americas?
Waldseemüller also created globe gores, printed maps designed to be cut out and pasted onto spheres to form globes of the Earth. The wall map, and his globe gores of the same date, depict the American continents in two pieces. These depictions differ from the small inset map in the top border of the wall map, which shows the two American continents joined by an isthmus.
If there is a real historic document mentioning the America whose publication was long before predating 1507 that would be an amazing discovery in itself? However I have my doubts as modern translations can have things added in translation. Some times intentionally and some times un intentionally.
The world map from the Seven Days of Geography (Septe Giornate della Geographia), an Italian terza rima paraphrase of Ptolemy's Geography. After Ptolemy's second projection. Shows no sign of the Term "Americas"
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Hellenistic society in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria.
Kanacki
Yeah; like MU/LEMURIA in the Pacific...
From Diodorus Siculus Library of History book III chap. 59-60
Diodorus Siculus book I, chap. 41, bold is there for emphasis, not in original text.
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Aristotle, On the Heavens, book II part 2
Pliny the Elder Natural History Book II, chapter 2
Ibid, chap.3
Strabo Geography book i chapter 4 Strabo is agreeing with Eratosthenes on the shape of the world but not the dimensions.
<Job 26:7> in Isaiah it is mentioned that god sits on the 'circle of the Earth' but Isaiah also has reference to the 'four corners of the world' which has been used to support the flat earth theory.
Just wanted to add here a little bit. I had in mind to say 'a rose is a rose by any other name' when referring to the Americas, we ought not expect the continents to be called by a name that was not invented until 1507 when Amerigo Vespucci was so honored for his own discovery of Columbus' error.
Also neglected to mention the Norse discovery of America circa ~1000 or 1001-2 it seems the historians are in dispute about the exact year, by Leif Eriksson. An earlier near-discovery by Bjarni Herjulfsson in which his ship was carried by storms within sight of the Americas might have credited him with the first Norse discovery, but poor Bjarni decided not to set foot on shore. Eriksson bought the ship from Bjarni as it was considered a lucky ship, and for the record this was not a Viking longboat which was a warship, Eriksson's ship was almost certainly the Norse trading ship type called a Knarr. https://www.historynet.com/norse-knarr.htm
A side point also, but accidental crossings of the oceans have been occurring for over 2000 years as well. Pedro Alvarez Cabral was attempting to sail around Africa when his fleet of ships was carried far to the westward by violent storms, and found himself on the coast of Brazil in 1500. Apparently some ships have even been blown across the Pacific entirely by accident (or perhaps partly by design) and is posited by some theorists as the explanation of how the vast stretches of the Pacific became colonized by the Polynesians. I would point out here that according to Aristotle, the Carthaginians discovered America quite by accident as well, while attempting to found colonies on the west (Atlantic) coast of Africa and the ships were caught in a storm that carried them across the sea just as happened centuries later to Cabral.
This ancient tendency to keep the Americas a sort of trade secret for those who knew about it, continued well into the so called 'age of enlightenment' for we find maps and charts marked with hideous sea monsters and strange man-like creatures attributed to lands across the Atlantic, to discourage competitors from other states even to attempt the crossing. That the knowledge of the Earth being spherical in shape was lost in the Medeival period should not be too big a surprise as much knowledge was also lost besides, resulting in the spread of ignorance and the flat earth belief. It wasn't called the Dark Ages for nothing!
On the trash/garbage issue, I would point out that the other ancient sources on Atlantis do not include such advanced technologies as Plato assigned to it; no mention of any triremes or chariots or advanced plumbing. This is not to say that Atlantis was a bunch of cave dwellers, far from it - they were among the first agriculturalists, almost certainly livestock herders while still doing some hunting and gathering like more primitive peoples in existence at the time. That kind of civilization does not leave much trash for us to find - look at the island of Malta for an example of this. Also, even if Atlantis were a highly advanced culture, the garbage of highly advanced cultures is also highly degradable. Few things will endure for 1,000 years let alone 11,300~ or so. Glass, gold and some highly refined metal alloys will survive, other things will survive only in protected circumstances. I have a rather interesting tidbit on this aspect (artifacts) that I cannot share at this time, but I can tell you that ONE item from Atlantis did survive and get found by an archaeologist. If you do some research you will find out about it too. It turned up in a most unexpected place, in a dig for a completely unrelated culture.
Dang it almost forgot one other point - remember what Plato stated about the end of Atlantis, it was destroyed in a single day and night of earthquakes and floods. It does not state that the entire landmass sunk beneath the sea. Don't let Hollywood and other interpretations affect your expectations of Atlantis, read the source text for yourself carefully. Several big erroneous ideas get ingrained into this legend by the erroneous understanding of other authors and researchers, like the 'continent' bit - Plato is describing an island empire, and the main island is not any bigger than say Madagascar, which is easily extrapolated by his description of the lands and how the military forces are raised etc. The "larger than Asia and Africa combined" thing is a mistranslation for what should have said GREATER than, as the USA is greater than Russia in most aspects but Russia is larger.
Please do continue, sorry for getting carried away again!
I would say that if anyone ever found Atlantis, it would probably be a treasure of unheard of wealth. Other than the tons of gold it supposedly has there are artifacts and historical valuable relics!
Lets talk about this place, where is it located and what can WE do to help someone find it? Anyone has maps they are sitting on, with the location of Atlantis?
