{"id":3014,"date":"2010-06-06T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/clarke-arthur-c\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:05:04","slug":"clarke-arthur-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/clarke-arthur-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarke, Arthur C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/arthur-c-clarke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27404\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/arthur-c-clarke-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"arthur-c-clarke\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/arthur-c-clarke-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/arthur-c-clarke.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Arthur C. <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>larke <\/strong><strong>(1917-2008) <\/strong>the renowned author, touched on the subject of the \u201cPillars of Heracles\u201d when he suggested that there was evidence that the early Greeks located them closer to home than Gibraltar. He opted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-messina\/\">Strait of Messina<\/a> between Italy and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>. Unfortunately he failed to name his sources.<\/p>\n<p>However, with regard to Atlantis itself, Clarke stated simply \u2018I know, of course, that Plato\u2019s Atlantis never really existed\u2019, and proposed that <em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Donnelly<\/a> should be the patron saint of the peddlers of UFO\/parapsychology mind rot.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>1028<\/sup><sup>.<\/sup><\/a><sup>391<\/sup><sup>]<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) the renowned author, touched on the subject of the \u201cPillars of Heracles\u201d when he suggested that there was evidence that the early Greeks located them closer to home than Gibraltar. He opted for the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Unfortunately he failed to name his sources. However, with regard [&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":[1746,2259,108,48,132,101,1080],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-atlantis","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-plato","tag-sicily","tag-strait-of-messina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66030,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/66030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}