{"id":25776,"date":"2015-03-09T08:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25776"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:33:39","slug":"guest-edwin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/guest-edwin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest, Edwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edwin<\/strong><strong> Guest (1800-1880) <\/strong>was an English academic who, although he initially practiced law, later <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwin-Guest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25780\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Edwin-Guest.jpg\" alt=\"Edwin Guest\" width=\"186\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>became better known as a philologist, historian and topographer. He was elected Master of Caius College, Cambridge\u00a0in 1852 and later was briefly Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<p>His <em>Origines Celticae<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">1069<\/a>] <\/sup>was published posthumously in 1883<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup> in which he commented on the Atlantis debate as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>That the tale afterwards should be overlaid with fable is what might be expected, but there is no reason that I can see, why it may not originally be based on truth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/originescelticae01gues\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/originescelticae01gues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/originescelticae02gues\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/originescelticae02gues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Guest (1800-1880) was an English academic who, although he initially practiced law, later became better known as a philologist, historian and topographer. He was elected Master of Caius College, Cambridge\u00a0in 1852 and later was briefly Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. His Origines Celticae[1069] was published posthumously in 1883(a)(b) in which he commented on the Atlantis [&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":[],"class_list":["post-25776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776","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=25776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66724,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25776\/revisions\/66724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}