{"id":2524,"date":"2010-06-01T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:34:22","slug":"mcclain-ernest-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mcclain-ernest-g\/","title":{"rendered":"McClain, Ernest G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/McClain170907649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23824\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/McClain170907649.jpg\" alt=\"McClain170907649\" width=\"169\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Ernest G.<\/strong><strong> McClain <\/strong><strong>(1918-2014) <\/strong>was a professor emeritus of music at Brooklyn College, New York. He is also the author of a highly original idea that details incorporated in Plato\u2019s Atlantis story can be explained in terms of mathematical\/musical theory<sup>(b)<\/sup>, detailed in <em>The Pythagorean Plato<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">1082<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>McClain attributed the development of musical theory to the Sumerians of around 3000 BC<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the application of McClain\u2019s hypothesis is not confined to Plato but was extended to both the New Testament and the Indian Vedas. His work is fully expounded in his <em>Myth of Invariance: The Origins of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rig Veda to Plato<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">1284<\/a>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>published in 1985. However commendable, his work is highly technical and not for the faint-hearted. He also wrote an appendix for<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/driscoll-kurtz\/\"> Driscoll &amp; Kurtz\u2019s<\/a> <em>Atlantis: Egyptian Genesis<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><sup>0672<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Ernest McClain passed away on April 25th, 2014<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/nytimes\/obituary.aspx?n=ernest-glenn-mcclain&amp;pid=170921414\">https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/nytimes\/obituary.aspx?n=ernest-glenn-mcclain&amp;pid=170921414<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/ernestmcclain.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/plato_optimized.pdf\">Microsoft Word &#8211; Plato_MASTER_V9.doc (wordpress.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/ernestmcclain.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/musical-theory-and-ancient-cosmology-by-ernest-g-mcclain-1994.pdf\">https:\/\/ernestmcclain.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/musical-theory-and-ancient-cosmology-by-ernest-g-mcclain-1994.pdf<\/a> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest G. McClain (1918-2014) was a professor emeritus of music at Brooklyn College, New York. He is also the author of a highly original idea that details incorporated in Plato\u2019s Atlantis story can be explained in terms of mathematical\/musical theory(b), detailed in The Pythagorean Plato[1082]. McClain attributed the development of musical theory to the Sumerians [&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":[1990,3780,5239,1321,5238,741],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-driscoll-kurtz","tag-ernest-g-mcclain","tag-musical-theory","tag-pythagoras","tag-rig-veda","tag-sumerians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67448,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/67448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}