{"id":16888,"date":"2012-03-21T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T08:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16888"},"modified":"2023-09-05T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:11:20","slug":"athens-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/athens-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Athens, <\/strong>according to tradition, was founded by the goddess <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/athene\/\">Athene<\/a>. It has been inhabited since around 5000 BC but it was not until the 2<sup>nd <\/sup>millennium that<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ancient_athens.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59789 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ancient_athens.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ancient_athens.png 800w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ancient_athens-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ancient_athens-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> it became an important <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mycenaean\/\">Mycenaean<\/a> centre. This conflicts with the idea that Athens engaged in a war with Atlantis around 9600 BC. It simply did not exist at that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong>Readers may be interested in an article by Stephanos Mytilinaos entitled <em>Athens Before the Deluge according to Plato<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of maps of Athens at the time of Plato is available online<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/plato-dialogues.org\/tools\/athensim.htm\">https:\/\/plato-dialogues.org\/tools\/athensim.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)\u00a0<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-4466\/\">Archive 4466 | (atlantipedia.ie)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens, according to tradition, was founded by the goddess Athene. It has been inhabited since around 5000 BC but it was not until the 2nd millennium that it became an important Mycenaean centre. This conflicts with the idea that Athens engaged in a war with Atlantis around 9600 BC. It simply did not exist at [&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":[606,305,679,132,7775],"class_list":["post-16888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-athene","tag-athens","tag-mycenaean","tag-plato","tag-stephanos-mytilinaos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","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=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59791,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions\/59791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}