{"id":2905,"date":"2010-06-05T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/braymer-marjorie\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:05","slug":"braymer-marjorie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/braymer-marjorie\/","title":{"rendered":"Braymer, Marjorie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marjorie<\/strong> <strong>B<\/strong><strong>raymer<\/strong> <strong>(1911\u20131988)<\/strong> was a teacher, editor and latterly a writer of children\u2019s books. She was the author of a book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\"><sup>198<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that reviewed the development of the Atlantis story from Plato to the discovery of America and the subsequent identification of it with Atlantis. She then shows how the American location lost favour and attention shifted to the Atlantic, a view brought to great prominence by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a>. In time our improved knowledge of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/geology\/\">geology<\/a> gradually undermined the acceptability of Donnelly\u2019s view and so, in the middle of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, attention shifted further east to the Mediterranean, with the discovery of Minoan remains under a mass of volcanic ash on ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/thera\/\">Thera<\/a>, now <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santorini\/\">Santorini<\/a>, that seemed to match Plato\u2019s lost civilisation in many respects. Braymer devoted more than a quarter of her book to the subject and concluded it was highly probable that Thera had been Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>The book was written over a quarter of a century ago and as a consequence, could not take account of more recent developments such as the Maltese, Sardinian and Egyptian location theories.<\/p>\n<p>Although Braymer\u2019s very informative book is primarily intended for young adult readers, it is quite adequate as an introduction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/minoan-hypothesis\/\">Minoan Hypothesis<\/a>\u00a0for a wider audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Braymer (1911\u20131988) was a teacher, editor and latterly a writer of children\u2019s books. She was the author of a book[198] that reviewed the development of the Atlantis story from Plato to the discovery of America and the subsequent identification of it with Atlantis. She then shows how the American location lost favour and attention [&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":[49,108,795,157,130,31],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geology","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-marjorie-braymer","tag-minoan-hypothesis","tag-santorini","tag-thera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65785,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/65785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}