{"id":2659,"date":"2010-06-03T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-the-making-of-myth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:02:47","slug":"atlantis-the-making-of-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-the-making-of-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis: The Making of Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>tlantis: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>T<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>he <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>M<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>aking of <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>M<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>yth<\/em><\/strong> <strong>[<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><strong>266<\/strong><\/a><strong>]<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/young-forsyth-phyllis\/\">Phyllis Young Forsyth<\/a> gives a good oversight of the Atlantis mystery as viewed at<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-The-Making-of-Myth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34095\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Atlantis-The-Making-of-Myth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a> that time with particular reference to the growing support for a Minoan solution as the archaeological discoveries on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santorini\/\">Santorini<\/a> supported the popular concept of a forgotten Aegean civilisation. However, Professor Forsyth is not seduced by this idea and argues for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/syracuse\/\">Syracuse<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a> and its ruler Dionysius I as the principal inspiration behind Plato\u2019s morality tale. Unfortunately, this still leaves too many unanswered questions: where were the Pillars of Heracles? Why did Plato not simply name Sicily? How do we explain the fact that Syracuse was not submerged? How do we reconcile Plato\u2019s 9,000 \u2018years\u2019 with the time of Dionysius\u2019 reign? etc, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantis: The Making of Myth [266] by Phyllis Young Forsyth gives a good oversight of the Atlantis mystery as viewed at that time with particular reference to the growing support for a Minoan solution as the archaeological discoveries on Santorini supported the popular concept of a forgotten Aegean civilisation. However, Professor Forsyth is not seduced [&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-2659","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\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66623,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/66623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}