{"id":1585,"date":"2010-05-24T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:59:50","slug":"griffiths-john-gwyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/griffiths-john-gwyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffiths, John Gwyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Gwyn<\/strong><strong> G<\/strong><strong>riffiths <\/strong><strong>(1911-2004)<\/strong> was Professor Emeritus of Classics and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Gwyn_J_Griffiths-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28048\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Gwyn_J_Griffiths-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gwyn_J_Griffiths (2)\" width=\"250\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Egyptology at the University of Wales, Swanseaand also a poet and political activist. A number of his essays have been collected and published in one volume, <em>A<\/em><em>tlantis and <\/em><em>E<\/em><em>gypt<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>346<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, in which the first essay discusses the probability of an Egyptian origin for Plato\u2019s Atlantis tale.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>This interesting paper can be read on the JSTOR website<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the date of the demise of Atlantis<strong>,<\/strong> Griffiths points out that the Egyptian hieroglyphics for 100 and 1000 are quite distinctive and assuming that the original story was inscribed in that format, there was no good reason to alter Plato\u2019s date from 9000 to 900 years before Solon\u2019s visit to Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <em>Historia: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Alte Geschichte <\/em>Bd. 34, H. 1 (1st Qtr., 1985), pp. 3-28<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">* <span style=\"color: #000000;\">See: JSTOR\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Also See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/i400258\">https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/400258<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gwyn Griffiths (1911-2004) was Professor Emeritus of Classics and Egyptology at the University of Wales, Swanseaand also a poet and political activist. A number of his essays have been collected and published in one volume, Atlantis and Egypt[346], in which the first essay discusses the probability of an Egyptian origin for Plato\u2019s Atlantis tale.*This [&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-1585","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\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66715,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/66715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}