{"id":13572,"date":"2010-12-29T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13572"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:43:22","slug":"barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018Barbarian\u2019 <\/strong>(<em>b\u00e1rbaros<\/em>) is the word used by Plato to describe the early kings of Atlantis (Critias 113a), which is a far cry from being considered sons of gods. The term was originally used by the ancient Greeks as a way to describe a non-Greek speaking person and is usually translated into English as \u2018barbarian\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bury-rev-robert-gregg\/\">Bury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/taylor-thomas\/\">Taylor<\/a>\u00a0&amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lamb-w-r-m\/\">Lamb<\/a>) or as the less pejorative foreigner\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jowett-benjamin\/\">Jowett<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The etymology of the word &#8216;barbarian&#8217; and how it has morphed over the centuries can be studied online(a).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191218152126\/https:\/\/www.taneter.org\/berbers.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191218152126\/https:\/\/www.taneter.org\/berbers.html<\/a>\u00a0or See: <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-3109\/\">Archive 3109<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Barbarian\u2019 (b\u00e1rbaros) is the word used by Plato to describe the early kings of Atlantis (Critias 113a), which is a far cry from being considered sons of gods. The term was originally used by the ancient Greeks as a way to describe a non-Greek speaking person and is usually translated into English as \u2018barbarian\u2019 (Bury, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","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=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66644,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions\/66644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}