{"id":23882,"date":"2014-06-07T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=23882"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:35:19","slug":"macrae-michael-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/macrae-michael-n\/","title":{"rendered":"MacRae, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael MacRae <\/strong>(1949- ) <\/strong>is an Australian artist, writer and documentary maker who specialises in comparative mythology. His 2014 book, Sun Boat:The Odyssey Deciphered<\/em>[<\/sup>985<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>offers the theory that Homer<\/a>\u2019s epic poem is an account of Odysseus\u2019 circumnavigation of the world circa 1160-1130 BC.<\/p>\n

In June 2015 he was ‘the author of the month’ on Graham Hancock’s website(a)<\/sup> with an article promoting his book. However, Jason Colavito <\/a>has responded to that with a dismissive critique of MacRae’s idea(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

This tussle has continued back and forth on Hancock’s website(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

MacRae notes the suggestion that Homer\u2019s Scheria<\/a> can be identified with Atlantis and as such was probably situated off the western end of the Bay of Cadiz, Portugal\u2019s Cape Vincent.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/forum\/MacRaeM1.php<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/fringe-author-claims-odysseus-circumnavigated-the-earth-in-1160-bce<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/phorum\/read.php?f=8&i=35955&t=35950<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael MacRae (1949- ) is an Australian artist, writer and documentary maker who specialises in comparative mythology. His 2014 book, Sun Boat:The Odyssey Deciphered[985] offers the theory that Homer\u2019s epic poem is an account of Odysseus\u2019 circumnavigation of the world circa 1160-1130 BC. In June 2015 he was ‘the author of the month’ on Graham […]<\/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":[3136,3135,123,1266,3134,1779,866],"class_list":["post-23882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bay-of-cadiz","tag-cape-vincent","tag-homer","tag-jason-colavito","tag-michael-macrae","tag-odysseus","tag-portugal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882","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=23882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65399,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23882\/revisions\/65399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}