{"id":3132,"date":"2010-06-07T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dionysus-of-miletus\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:22:26","slug":"dionysus-of-miletus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/dionysus-of-miletus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dionysus of Miletus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D<\/strong><strong>ionysus of <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>iletus<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> also known as Skytobrachion (leather arm) lived in Alexandria in the middle of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> century BC and wrote a book entitled <em>A<\/em><em>rgonautica<\/em><em>. <\/em>It is frequently claimed that he lived in the 6<sup>th<\/sup> century BC, but this is highly questionable. His work was among that of a number of writers that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/diodorus-siculus\/\">Diodorus Siculus<\/a> drew upon when he wrote his account of the North African <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/amazons\/\">Amazons<\/a> and their conflict with the Atlanteans. An extensive manuscript copy of Dionysus\u2019 book was allegedly found among the papers of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/benoit-pierre-2\/\">Pierre Benoit<\/a>, the novelist, but was subsequently \u2018lost\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dionysus of Miletus, also known as Skytobrachion (leather arm) lived in Alexandria in the middle of the 2nd century BC and wrote a book entitled Argonautica. It is frequently claimed that he lived in the 6th century BC, but this is highly questionable. His work was among that of a number of writers that Diodorus [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","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=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65827,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/65827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}