{"id":2894,"date":"2010-06-05T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bramwell-james-guy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:04:31","slug":"bramwell-james-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bramwell-james-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bramwell, James Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James<\/strong> <strong>Guy<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>ramwell<\/strong> <strong>(1911-1995)<\/strong> also wrote under the name of James Byrom. Included in his output is a very objective account<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>195<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> of the Atlantis debate in the book on the subject<em>. <\/em>Although somewhat dated now, Bramwell discusses in depth the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/credibility-and-veracity-of-the-atlantis-story\/\">credibility<\/a> of Plato\u2019s story<sup>(a)<\/sup> as well as giving a good summary of the arguments in favour of Atlantis\u2019 existence.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in his book (p141) he denounced the view that Atlantis flourished during the Bronze Age as \u201cuntenable\u201d! \u00a0With this in mind he looks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cro-magnon-man\/\">Cro-Magnon<\/a> invasion of Europe 25,000 years ago and their mysterious origin. They were a tall race with characteristic prominent cheekbones and a brain capacity greater than modern humans. Bramwell famously stated, \u201cAtlantis must be understood as located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantic-ocean\/\">Atlantic Ocean<\/a> or it is not Atlantis at all.\u201d Although frequently quoted, this somewhat glib quotation will not stand up to critical scrutiny, if it can be shown that in the time of Plato and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/solon\/\">Solon<\/a>\u00a0that a number of critical terms used by him, such as \u2018<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Tony\/Documents\/Atlantipedia.Oct.2013\/TEXT%20with%20Links%20Oct.17.docx\">Atlantic\u2019<\/a>, &#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217; and &#8216;Asia&#8217;,\u00a0may have had a totally different meanings to what we understand today.<\/p>\n<p>Bramwell\u2019s book also contains an extensive bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041216191833\/http:\/63.147.65.175\/books\/chap153.htm\">Denver Post Online: Books and Authors (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Guy Bramwell (1911-1995) also wrote under the name of James Byrom. Included in his output is a very objective account[195] of the Atlantis debate in the book on the subject. Although somewhat dated now, Bramwell discusses in depth the credibility of Plato\u2019s story(a) as well as giving a good summary of the arguments in [&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":[40,2696,125,2594,2695,48],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-bibliography","tag-bronze-age","tag-james-bramwell","tag-james-byrom","tag-pillars-of-heracles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65778,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/65778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}