{"id":18044,"date":"2012-08-16T07:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18044"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:00:17","slug":"cornford-francis-macdonald-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cornford-francis-macdonald-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornford, Francis MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943) <\/strong>was an English classical scholar and a Professor of Ancient<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Cornford.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29216\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Cornford-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cornford\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Cornford-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Cornford.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a> Philosophy at Cambridge, who published several books on his subject<sup>(a)<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1935, he published a translation of Plato\u2019s <em>Timaeus,<\/em> including a commentary with the full title of <em>Plato&#8217;s Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato Translated with a Running Commentary<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">852<\/a>]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>+<\/strong><\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cornford was a confirmed Atlantis sceptic, remarking that <em>&#8220;serious scholars now agree that Atlantis probably owed its existence entirely to Plato&#8217;s imagination.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kessinger Publishing issued a reprint of his commentary as recently as 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>[852]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>+ <\/strong><\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/juanfermejia.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/platos-cosmology.pdf\">https:\/\/juanfermejia.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/platos-cosmology.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._M._Cornford%20%20%20%20\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F._M._Cornford<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Macdonald Cornford (1874-1943) was an English classical scholar and a Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, who published several books on his subject(a) . &nbsp; In 1935, he published a translation of Plato\u2019s Timaeus, including a commentary with the full title of Plato&#8217;s Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato Translated with a Running Commentary[852]+. &nbsp; [&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":[1278,403],"class_list":["post-18044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-francis-macdonald-cornford","tag-timaeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044","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=18044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66076,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions\/66076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}