Alexander Shewan (1851- 1941) <\/b>had worked for the Indian Civil Service but was better known as an Homeric scholar.<\/p>\n
James Bramwell<\/a> noted[195<\/a>.88]<\/sup> that Shewan accepted that the Atlantis story had been familiar to the Egyptians but that it had been embellished with details from Crete.<\/p>\n Leslie Shepard <\/a>in his Introduction to a 1968 edition of Lewis Spence\u2019s The<\/i> Histoy of Atlantis <\/i>notes that it used\u00a0be fashionable to jeer at the existence of Atlantis but, as the Homeric scholar, Professor Alexander Shewan points out, “that can hardly continue, now that Mr. Lewis Spence <\/a>has examined the evidence at length in The Problem of Atlantis, Atlantis in America, and The History of Atlantis.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alexander Shewan (1851- 1941) had worked for the Indian Civil Service but was better known as an Homeric scholar. James Bramwell noted[195.88] that Shewan accepted that the Atlantis story had been familiar to the Egyptians but that it had been embellished with details from Crete. Leslie Shepard in his Introduction to a 1968 edition of […]<\/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":[2625,2594,2626,78],"class_list":["post-22338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alexandershewan","tag-james-bramwell","tag-leslie-shepard","tag-lewis-spence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338","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=22338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}