{"id":11392,"date":"2010-09-04T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2026-10-01T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:10:51","slug":"diller-hans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/diller-hans\/","title":{"rendered":"Diller, Hans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hans<\/strong><strong> D<\/strong><strong>iller <\/strong><strong>(1905-1977) <\/strong>was a German classical scholar with a particular interest in ancient Greek medicine. He was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35007\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DillerHans.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>student of the Greek tragedians and co-authored works about Sophocles. His scholarship resulted in an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens being awarded in 1962. He was professor of classical philology at Kiel University until his retirement<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1953, he published <em>Der Atlantisbericht ein Platonischer Mythos, <\/em>in which he suggested that Plato\u2019s Atlantean war was a \u2018fictional parallel\u2019 to the Greco-<a title=\"persian war\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/persian-war\/\">Persian wars <\/a>(500-449 BC).\u00a0As these conflicts took place after Solon\u2019s visit to <a href=\"#Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>, Plato\u2019s naming of Solon as his source would, on Diller\u2019s interpretation, make the account a clear anachronism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diller\u2019s theory followed the views of <a title=\"schulten\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/adolph-schulten\/\">Adolf Schulten<\/a>, but was dismissed by <a title=\"spanuth\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spanuth-dr-jurgen\/\">J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">015<\/a><\/sup><sup>.16]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hans_Diller\">Hans Diller &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Diller (1905-1977) was a German classical scholar with a particular interest in ancient Greek medicine. He was also a student of the Greek tragedians and co-authored works about Sophocles. His scholarship resulted in an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens being awarded in 1962. He was professor of classical philology at Kiel University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[422,1933,232,8013],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adolf-schulten","tag-hans-diller","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-kiel-university"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69000,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/69000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}