{"id":2699,"date":"2010-06-03T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/autochthon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:51:18","slug":"autochthon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/autochthon\/","title":{"rendered":"Autochthon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>utochthon<\/strong> is a Greek word meaning \u2018of the earth\u2019 and has come to mean aboriginal inhabitant. Autochthon was the name of the younger of the third pair of twins fathered by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/poseidon\/\">Poseidon<\/a>, as recorded by Plato. Autochthon has been linked<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> with the Phoenician pantheon. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald Franke<\/a> argues that Plato\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/autochthon\/\">Autochthon<\/a> was the king of the Sicani who partly occupied <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a> at the time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schoppe-christian-siegfried\/\">C.&amp;S.Schoppe<\/a> refer to Autochthon as being in some way connected with the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/danube-river\/\">Danube<\/a>, without any clear explanation<sup>(b) <\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250607035122\/https:\/\/phoenicia.org\/atlantisplato.html\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250607035122\/https:\/\/phoenicia.org\/atlantisplato.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190830053312\/https:\/\/www.black-sea-atlantis.com\/black-sea-atlantis\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190830053312\/https:\/\/www.black-sea-atlantis.com\/black-sea-atlantis\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autochthon is a Greek word meaning \u2018of the earth\u2019 and has come to mean aboriginal inhabitant. Autochthon was the name of the younger of the third pair of twins fathered by Poseidon, as recorded by Plato. Autochthon has been linked(a) with the Phoenician pantheon. Thorwald Franke argues that Plato\u2019s Autochthon was the king of the [&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":[2547,2520,2366,280,60,101,692],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autocthon","tag-c-s-schoppe","tag-danube","tag-poseidon","tag-sea-peoples","tag-sicily","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66687,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/66687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}