{"id":25269,"date":"2014-11-24T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25269"},"modified":"2017-04-02T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T18:52:15","slug":"socratous-costas-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/socratous-costas-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Socratous, Costas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Costas Socratous <\/strong>is a Cypriot author and no stranger to controversy as some years ago he claimed that Umberto Eco\u2019s celebrated book, <em>The Name of the Rose, <\/em>had been based on a work of his, <em>O Aforismenos. <\/em>He lost his legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, when <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mattievich-kucich-enrico-clemente\/\">Enrico Mattievich<\/a> published his <em>J<\/em><em>ourney to the Mythological Inferno <\/em>in which he claimed that the ancient Greeks had discovered America, Socratous alleged that he had made the same claim in a 1995 book<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>, apparently unaware that Mattievich had originally published his book in Portuguese in 1992 and in 1986 had delivered his preliminary findings in a lecture<sup>(b)<\/sup>. Apart from which <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/henriette-mertz\/\">Henriette Mertz<\/a> had published the same idea in the early 1960s. Oops!<\/p>\n<p>Socratous\u2019 book places Atlantis in the Atlantic with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/troy\/\">Troy <\/a>as its capital!<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/soc.culture.greek\/DXkU4JRrVeA\">https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/soc.culture.greek\/DXkU4JRrVeA<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2433\/\">Archive 2433<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenicia.org\/Chavin_Press_Release.html\">https:\/\/phoenicia.org\/Chavin_Press_Release.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costas Socratous is a Cypriot author and no stranger to controversy as some years ago he claimed that Umberto Eco\u2019s celebrated book, The Name of the Rose, had been based on a work of his, O Aforismenos. He lost his legal challenge. In 2010, when Enrico Mattievich published his Journey to the Mythological Inferno in [&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":[2259,3509,3510,475,45,3511],"class_list":["post-25269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-costas-socratous","tag-enrico-mattievich","tag-henriette-mertz","tag-troy","tag-umberto-eco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25269","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=25269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}