{"id":3153,"date":"2010-06-07T10:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/doumas-christos\/"},"modified":"2018-07-07T07:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T06:27:20","slug":"doumas-christos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/doumas-christos\/","title":{"rendered":"Doumas, Christos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/doumas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27622\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/doumas.jpg\" alt=\"doumas\" width=\"296\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Christos<\/strong> <strong>D<\/strong><strong>oumas<\/strong> <strong>(1933- )<\/strong> is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Athens and has a passion for his country\u2019s early history.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>He was the editor of <em>Thera and the Aegean World<\/em> (Vol I) <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1573<\/a>]<\/sup>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Doumas succeeded <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/marinatos-dr-spyridon\/\">Spyridon Marinatos<\/a> as director of the Akrotiri excavations on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santorini\/\">Santorini<\/a>. Unfortunately, an accident that killed a British tourist led to the closure of the site in 2005. In the same year Doumas presented a paper to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-%e2%80%93-melos-2005\/\">Atlantis Conference<\/a> on Melos when he outlined his reasons for believing that the Atlantis story was, in his word, a \u2018chimera\u2019, quoting his colleague, Ren\u00e9 Treuil.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>At the Conference he argued on the basis of the Location, Size and Shape of Atlantis combined with the claimed level of Civilisation and the Date of Submergence!<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christos Doumas (1933- ) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Athens and has a passion for his country\u2019s early history.*He was the editor of Thera and the Aegean World (Vol I) [1573].* Doumas succeeded Spyridon Marinatos as director of the Akrotiri excavations on Santorini. Unfortunately, an accident that killed a British tourist [&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":[5738,2927,3827,130,85,1408,31],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis-conference-2005","tag-christos-doumas","tag-rene-treuil","tag-santorini","tag-sceptic","tag-spyridon-marinatos","tag-thera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}