{"id":3033,"date":"2010-06-06T19:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:18:21","slug":"commercialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/commercialisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercialisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>ommercialisation<\/strong> of the Atlantis name took off in a dramatic fashion during the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Film and television programmes, usually with a totally distorted slant on Plato\u2019s original story, became very popular. Manufacturers, shops and even what was once the largest brothel in Germany<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>, all exploited the universal recognition of the Atlantis name.<\/p>\n<p>What would Plato have thought?<\/p>\n<p>Book publishers have cynically republished books with new titles that include the word &#8216;Atlantis&#8217;. Arguably the worst example of this was <em>The Round Towers of Ireland <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\">0124<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0 by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/obrien-henry\/\">Henry O&#8217;Brien<\/a>, who referred to neither Atlantis or Plato in it. Over a century and a half later, Adventures Unlimited Press, founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/childress-david-hatcher\/\">David Hatcher Childress<\/a>, published O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s text again as <em>The Round Towers of Atlantis<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\">0125<\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>What would O&#8217;Brien have thought?<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190403172539\/https:\/\/everything2.com\/title\/Atlantis%252C+German+brothel\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190403172539\/https:\/\/everything2.com\/title\/Atlantis%252C+German+brothel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commercialisation of the Atlantis name took off in a dramatic fashion during the second half of the 20th century. Film and television programmes, usually with a totally distorted slant on Plato\u2019s original story, became very popular. Manufacturers, shops and even what was once the largest brothel in Germany(a), all exploited the universal recognition of [&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":[5631,99,982,294],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commercialisation","tag-david-hatcher-childress","tag-henry-obrien","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","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=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66061,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/66061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}