{"id":312,"date":"2009-12-19T18:10:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=312"},"modified":"2019-05-21T16:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:40:33","slug":"michel-de-montaigne-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/michel-de-montaigne-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Montaigne, Michel de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michel de<\/strong><strong> Montaigne <\/strong><strong>(1533-1592) <\/strong>was an influential leader of the French Renaissance. He had studied law but abandoned it to devote himself to writing, producing three volume<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Michel_de_Montaigne_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26864\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Michel_de_Montaigne_1.jpg\" alt=\"Michel_de_Montaigne_1\" width=\"180\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>s of essays<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> on a wide range of subjects. For over four centuries Montaigne has influenced western philosophy and literature.<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\"> Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> ascribed the essays of Montaigne as well as the plays of both William Shakespeare <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> Christopher Marlowe to Francis Bacon<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">0023<\/a>]<\/sup>!<\/p>\n<p>In one of his essays, <em>On Cannibals<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1019<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, Montaigne referred to Plato\u2019s Atlantis and apparently accepted its reality. However, he did not express any opinion on the date of the lost civilisation or\u00a0its location, apart from ruling out <a href=\"#America\">America<\/a>, except to interpret Plato as saying that Atlantis was <em>\u201csituate directly at the mouth of the Straits of Gibraltar\u201d.<\/em> Modern commentators such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wells-joseph-warren\/\">J. Warren Wells <\/a>have also pointed out that in describing the location of Atlantis, Plato used the Greek word \u2018pro\u2019 means <em>before<\/em> and \u201cthat this in turn implies closeness.\u201d<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">783<\/a>.79]<\/sup> This conflicts with the idea that Atlantis was situated on or near the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cape-verde-islands\/\">Cape Verde <\/a>archipelagos or further afield in the Americas or <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/antarctica\/\">Antarctica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0small point is that Montaigne refers to \u2018Africa and Asia combined\u2019 (<em>Timaeus<\/em> 24e) rather than \u2018Libya and Asia\u2019 confirming that scholars in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century understood that \u2018Libya\u2019 in Plato\u2019s time had a broader meaning than just the territory west of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/3600\/3600-h\/3600-h.htm\">https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/3600\/3600-h\/3600-h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was an influential leader of the French Renaissance. He had studied law but abandoned it to devote himself to writing, producing three volumes of essays(a) on a wide range of subjects. For over four centuries Montaigne has influenced western philosophy and literature. Ignatius Donnelly ascribed the essays of Montaigne as well [&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":[2259,29,28,58,356,108,1116,1115,1177],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-azores","tag-canaries","tag-cape-verde","tag-francis-bacon","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-j-warren-wells","tag-michel-de-montaigne","tag-william-shakespeare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}