{"id":28661,"date":"2015-10-20T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=28661"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T07:31:25","slug":"pepper-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pepper-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepper, Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HOW<\/a><\/p>\n

Martin<\/strong> Pepper<\/strong> is an American geologist who is intent on demonstrating that Santorini<\/a> was the site of Atlantis, claiming to have new supportive evidence. He had his ideas revealed in a History Channel program, Atlantis Found,<\/em> which first aired on October 19th,<\/sup> 2015(a)<\/sup> as part of their How the Earth Works<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

I found it interesting that the advertising blurb for the show never once mentions Plato!<\/p>\n

Unsurprising, Jason Colavito,<\/a> an Atlantis sceptic,\u00a0offers a scathing critique of the two-hour show (b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>Additionally, the German website, Atlantisforschung, <\/em>criticises(c)<\/sup> the selective manner in which Pepper chose excerpts from Plato, carefully ignoring details that might conflict with Santorini being Atlantis.<\/p>\n

– “<\/em>Furthermore,\u00a0Martin Pepper\u00a0commits the same mistake as almost all supporters of the\u00a0<\/em>Creto-Minoan Atlantis theories: He seeks out exactly those details from\u00a0Plato’s\u00a0Atlantis\u00a0report<\/em> that correspond to his own ideas and a supposedly unalterable ‘state of scientific knowledge’, while ignoring everything which doesn’t fit.”<\/em> Atlantisforschung ends with a quote from Stelios Pavlou<\/a>\u00a0who commented – “Although<\/em>\u00a0Pepper\u00a0relies\u00a0heavily on factual science, much of the criticism of<\/em>\u00a0[his]\u00a0theory boils down to the fact that his claim is based on <\/em>ignoring much of Plato’s real text.”<\/em><<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

For my part, I cannot accept the Santorini\/Thera theory without a convincing explanation for where, in the 2nd<\/sup> millennium BC, the Atlantean military of over a million men, plus an even larger civilian population actually lived, not to mention the elephants<\/a>. Then there is also a small matter of the Plain of Atlantis <\/a>370x550km (230×345 miles); where was that? Finally, for good measure, we are missing “the mountains which surrounded it (that) were at that time celebrated as surpassing all that now exist in number, magnitude and beauty.” <\/em>(Critias.118b). I think Pepper should try again or better still, forget Atlantis altogether!<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160417204840\/https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x3amelg<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/review-of-historys-atlantis-found-documentary<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/span><\/sup> Martin Pepper \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin Pepper is an American geologist who is intent on demonstrating that Santorini was the site of Atlantis, claiming to have new supportive evidence. He had his ideas revealed in a History Channel program, Atlantis Found, which first aired on October 19th, 2015(a) as part of their How the Earth Works series. I found it […]<\/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":[2259,1983,1123,3387,1266,4223,2250,132,130,1121,31],"class_list":["post-28661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantisforschung","tag-elephants","tag-history-channel","tag-jason-colavito","tag-martin-pepper","tag-plain-of-atlantis","tag-plato","tag-santorini","tag-stelios-pavlou","tag-thera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661","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=28661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56919,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28661\/revisions\/56919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}