{"id":17573,"date":"2012-06-15T07:53:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17573"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T19:38:50","slug":"bockh-philip-august-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bockh-philip-august-n\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00f6ckh, Philip August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Philip August B\u00f6ckh (1785-1867) <\/strong>was German professor of classical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Boeckh_800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27537\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Boeckh_800-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boeckh_800\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Boeckh_800-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Boeckh_800.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>philology who, in his <em>Commentary on Plato, <\/em>drew attention to the fact that the Athenian war with Atlantis was celebrated for decades and possibly centuries before Plato, with the Athenian festival of lesser <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/panathenaea\/\">Panathenaea<\/a>, demonstrated that the story was not invented by Plato.He also identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-titans-amended\/\">Titans<\/a> as Atlanteans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, B\u00f6ckh in the same commentary, quotes from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/proclus-lycaeus\/\">Proclus<\/a>, describing Atlantis as a very large island controlling all the islands of the \u2018Atlantic\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/joseph-frank\/\">Frank Joseph<\/a> refers to a 1928 English translation of \u00a0B\u00f6ckh\u2019s \u2018Commentary\u2019 by a Robert Pearson, published by London University Press. Unfortunately, I have been unable to verify this source.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip August B\u00f6ckh (1785-1867) was German professor of classical philology who, in his Commentary on Plato, drew attention to the fact that the Athenian war with Atlantis was celebrated for decades and possibly centuries before Plato, with the Athenian festival of lesser Panathenaea, demonstrated that the story was not invented by Plato.He also identified the [&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":[124,1034,1033,2103,3104],"class_list":["post-17573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frank-joseph","tag-panathenaea","tag-philip-august-bockh","tag-proclus","tag-robert-pearson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573","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=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65739,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions\/65739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}