{"id":31385,"date":"2016-10-17T15:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31385"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:58:24","slug":"luongo-marilyn-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/luongo-marilyn-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Luongo, Marilyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marilyn<\/strong><strong> L<\/strong><strong>uongo <\/strong>is a South African entrepreneur involved in social projects there<sup>(b)<\/sup>. Her former website had an unexpected section dealing with the history of the Middle East<sup>(a)<\/sup> of which the second half involves a review of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis account. She attempts to link <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mesopotamia\/\">Mesopotamia<\/a> with Atlantis, beginning with locating the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pillars-of-herakles-revised\/\">&#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217; <\/a>at the Strait of Hormuz and then using the highly controversial interpretation of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meizon\/\">meizon<\/a>&#8216; meaning &#8216;between&#8217; rather than &#8216;greater&#8217; she proceeds to argue that Mesopotamia is &#8216;between&#8217; Asia and Libya and therefore is the home of Atlantis! She cited a paper by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2562\/\">Andreea Haktanir<\/a>, who supported this interpretation of meizon<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">https:\/\/www.middle-east.mavericsa.co.za\/history.htm<\/span> (link broken)<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Founder&#8217;s Page (archive.org) <\/span>\u00a0(link broken)<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160130222817\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2562\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160130222817\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2562\/ <\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Luongo is a South African entrepreneur involved in social projects there(b). Her former website had an unexpected section dealing with the history of the Middle East(a) of which the second half involves a review of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis account. She attempts to link Mesopotamia with Atlantis, beginning with locating the &#8216;Pillars of Heracles&#8217; at the [&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":[7194,2094,2259,184,4461,2016,463,4940,48,132,1987],"class_list":["post-31385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andreea-hakantir","tag-asia","tag-atlantis","tag-libya","tag-marilyn-luongo","tag-meizon","tag-mesopotamia","tag-middle-east","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-plato","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385","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=31385"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67352,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions\/67352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}