{"id":2851,"date":"2010-06-05T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bjorkman-edwin\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T09:10:49","slug":"bjorkman-edwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bjorkman-edwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bj\u00f6rkman, Edwin (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edwin<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>j\u00f6rkman<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>(1866-1951) <\/strong>was a Swedish-American literary critic, newspaperman, translator and author. Among his works was a short volume<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>181<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> on Atlantis in the late 1920\u2019s. The sub-title of Bj\u00f6rkman\u2019s book is <em>E<\/em><em>xcursions<\/em> <em>by a<\/em><em> L<\/em><em>ayman<\/em> <em>among<\/em><em> O<\/em><em>ld<\/em><em> L<\/em><em>egends<\/em> <em>and<\/em><em> N<\/em><em>ew<\/em><em> D<\/em><em>iscoveries<\/em>, which describes his researches into classical literature and what was then \u2018modern\u2019 archaeology.<\/p>\n<p>He has written a cogent argument in favour of identifying <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tartessos\/\">Tartessos<\/a> (the biblical <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tarshish\/\">Tarshish<\/a>) in Spain with Plato\u2019s Atlantis, as well as with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/homer\/\">Homer<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/scheria\/\">Scheria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Bj\u00f6rkman, (1866-1951) was a Swedish-American literary critic, newspaperman, translator and author. Among his works was a short volume[181] on Atlantis in the late 1920\u2019s. The sub-title of Bj\u00f6rkman\u2019s book is Excursions by a Layman among Old Legends and New Discoveries, which describes his researches into classical literature and what was then \u2018modern\u2019 archaeology. He [&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":[425,221,14,13],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-edwin-bjorkman","tag-scheria","tag-tarshish","tag-tartessos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}