{"id":3273,"date":"2010-06-07T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gill-christopher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:54:22","slug":"gill-christopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gill-christopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill, Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gill-Christopher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27633\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gill-Christopher-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gill Christopher\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gill-Christopher-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gill-Christopher.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>Christopher <\/strong><strong>G<\/strong><strong>ill<\/strong> is a classical Greek scholar who has published many works including a volume on Plato\u2019s Atlantis story<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>329<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><sup>.<\/sup> Professor Gill supports a totally mythological basis for the tale of Atlantis<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>330<\/sup><\/a><sup>][<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>331<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. He has also written the foreword to <em>T<\/em><em>he<\/em><em> A<\/em><em>tlantis<\/em><em> S<\/em><em>ecret, <\/em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/alford-alan-f\/\">Alan Alford<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> available on the Internet<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>On April Fools&#8217; Day, 2017, Gill published an updated and revised version of his Atlantis book, entitled,\u00a0<em>Plato&#8217;s Atlantis Story &#8211; Text, Translation and Commentary<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">1453<\/a>]<\/sup>. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has written a highly critical review of this latest offering from Gill<sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Franke has also taken issue with the level of Gill&#8217;s support for the sceptical views of Sarah Broadie<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"#A1518\">1518<\/a>]<\/sup> relating to Plato&#8217;s Atlantis, who wrote that <em>&#8220;the Athens-Atlantis story is fiction, and clearly intended as such.&#8221;<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"#A1519\">1519<\/a>]<\/sup> In his Newsletter No.102 (Sept.2017), Franke describes Broadie&#8217;s hypothesis as <em>&#8220;an orgy of errors&#8221;<\/em><sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160414143042\/https:\/\/eridu.co.uk\/Author\/Bookshop\/book4\/Foreword4\/foreword4.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160414143042\/https:\/\/eridu.co.uk\/Author\/Bookshop\/book4\/Foreword4\/foreword4.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis_newsl_archive.htm#an93\">https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis_newsl_archive.htm#an93<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis_newsl_archive.htm\">https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis_newsl_archive.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Christopher Gill is a classical Greek scholar who has published many works including a volume on Plato\u2019s Atlantis story[329]. Professor Gill supports a totally mythological basis for the tale of Atlantis[330][331]. He has also written the foreword to The Atlantis Secret, by Alan Alford, available on the Internet(a). On April Fools&#8217; Day, 2017, Gill [&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":[337,2259,333,132,5513,692],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-alford","tag-atlantis","tag-christopher-gill","tag-plato","tag-sarah-broadie","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66522,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/66522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}