 Vassilios Th. Paschos was born in Kanalia of Karditsa (in Greece) in 1924. He had a degree in Political Science of Panteion University and in Law Studies, he was a member of the Greek authors' Society and he was also the founder of the Atlantis Museum. His main occupation was Custom Houses Inspector. After 1944-45 he started writing in Thessalian newspapers about "the problems of agricultural youth" and in 1950-52 he worked for "Progressive liberal" (a local newspaper). Some of his articles were published in magazines like "New Hearth", "Critical Papers", "Thessalian Hearth", "Educational Way", "Link" etc and in "New Greek Encyclopaedia".In 1950 he started writing literary texts for children. In 1960 he began translating Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" into the modern Greek demotic language. In the "life of Solon" and in other "lives" he pointed out facts about Atlantis which he underlined and later copied. From then on, he wrote down everything he read about Atlantis and later recorded everything he saw in the museums he visited. Influenced by the myth of Atlantis The beginning was made in 1950 by reading Jules Verne's two books "The Mysterious Island" and "20,000 Leagues Down in the Sea". However, he systematically dealt with the "Atlantis case" in 1964, when he studied Plato's two speeches, "Timaeus" and "Critias". Since 1960 he had been collecting information from Egyptian papyruses, the Gigalmes Epic, the Bible, Homer, Hesiod, Plato etc in order to elaborate an essay about Atlantis. When, in 1976, many of the Daeniken's readers were seized with frenzy, he was forced to answer his theory with the book "The Atlantes Mr. Daeniken". That book, since the third edition and so far, has been put into circulation completed with new information from other sources, and under the new title "The Atlantes, not the Gods". In August 1981, he founded the private Museum of Atlantis, which functioned as an exhibit's room in various buildings until August 2000. In October 1982, on his own initiative, the "Atlantis Museum Promotion Association" was founded by 21 founding members, which was legally recognized in December 1982 by the Athens Court of First Instance.In April 1985 he retired from the State with the title of Honorary Customs House Inspector. He had time now and had several hours a day for the Museum. Unfortunately, however, the founder of the museum passed away on 1993-10-3. A total of seventeen (17) of his books and three (3) of his philology papers were published (see figure 1). The work and research of the museum was continued by Theodoros Paschos, son of the founder of the museum. Theodoros, using the new facilities offered by modern electronic technology, created, in the year 2,000, the web site "www.atlantida.gr", in which he was publicated some of the works and research of the museum. Much upgraded today with a new design and newer texts, articles and videos continues to work as "www.atlanteans.eu" and "www.atlanteans.gr". |
