{"id":14365,"date":"2011-05-26T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:15:47","slug":"etymology-of-atlantis-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/etymology-of-atlantis-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymology of &#8216;Atlantis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The E<\/strong><strong>tymology <\/strong>of <em>Atlantis <\/em>is frequently given in many modern books and websites<sup>(b)(c)<\/sup> to mean \u201ddaughter of Atlas\u201d, while some writers have opted for \u201disland of Atlas\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke <\/a>has pointed out that the more correct meaning is \u201cof Atlas\u201d or just \u201cAtlas\u2019 &#8230;&#8230;.\u201d with the context determining the precise interpretation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wells-joseph-warren\/\">J. Warren Wells<\/a><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">783<\/a>.13]<\/sup> has pointed out that the word Atlantis was used by<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hesiod\/\"> Hesiod <\/a>in line 938 of his <em><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theogony\/\">Theogony<\/a>, <\/em>centuries before both Plato and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/solon\/\">Solon<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hellanicus-of-lesbos\/\">Hellanicus of Lesbos<\/a> certainly used the term before Plato.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0collection of pre-Platonic references to Atlantis which do not directly use its name has been compiled by<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/leonard-r-cedric\/\"> R.Cedric Leonard<\/a><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017002927\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2055\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017002927\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2055\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/Atlantis\">https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/Atlantis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210422075207\/https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/atlantis\">Atlantis | Definition of Atlantis at Dictionary.com (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Etymology of Atlantis is frequently given in many modern books and websites(b)(c) to mean \u201ddaughter of Atlas\u201d, while some writers have opted for \u201disland of Atlas\u201d. Thorwald C. Franke has pointed out that the more correct meaning is \u201cof Atlas\u201d or just \u201cAtlas\u2019 &#8230;&#8230;.\u201d with the context determining the precise interpretation. J. Warren Wells[783.13] [&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":[6219,910,122,1116,201,146,957,692],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-etymology","tag-hellanicus","tag-hesiod","tag-j-warren-wells","tag-r-cedric-leonard","tag-solon","tag-theogony","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","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=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66299,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions\/66299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}