{"id":1878,"date":"2010-05-27T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ellis-richard\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T11:05:35","slug":"ellis-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ellis-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis, Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard<\/strong> <strong>E<\/strong><strong>llis <\/strong>is the author of a number of books on the oceans as well as being a distinguished marine artist. In his dissertation<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/richard-llis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27211\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/richard-llis-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"richard llis\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/e-f\/\"><sup>288<\/sup><\/a> <sup>]<\/sup>on Atlantis he consigns Plato\u2019s story to the realms of fantasy, and he discusses the efforts of both serious investigators, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mavor-james-watt\/\">James Mavor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cousteau-jacques-yves\/\">Jacques Cousteau<\/a> and also the ramblings of spiritualists like <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steiner-rudolf\/\">Rudolf Steiner<\/a>. He concludes that one group is simply misled while the other is misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The greater part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the possible link between the eruption of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santorini\/\">Santorini<\/a> in the second millennium BC and Atlantis. This, presumably, is due to the prominence that this particular theory had achieved in the popular media at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, while <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sceptics\/\">sceptics<\/a> have given the book an enthusiastic welcome, others have taken a more critical stance.<\/p>\n<p>Some years later, Ellis published <em>Encyclopedia of the Sea, <\/em>a comprehensive, but concise review of all things maritime, generously illustrated by the author.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Ellis is the author of a number of books on the oceans as well as being a distinguished marine artist. In his dissertation[288 ]on Atlantis he consigns Plato\u2019s story to the realms of fantasy, and he discusses the efforts of both serious investigators, such as James Mavor and Jacques Cousteau and also the ramblings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,1802,727,4014,1125,130,85],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-jacques-cousteau","tag-james-mavor","tag-richard-ellis","tag-rudolf-steiner","tag-santorini","tag-sceptic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69045,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/69045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}