{"id":3349,"date":"2010-06-08T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hardy-c-c-m\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:12:15","slug":"hardy-c-c-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hardy-c-c-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy, C. C. M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C. C. M <\/strong><strong>H<\/strong><strong>ardy <\/strong>was a contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-%e2%80%98bill%e2%80%99\/\">Egerton Sykes\u2019<\/a> <em>A<\/em><em>tlantis<\/em> magazine from its year of inception.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy subscribed to the view that there had been a dam at <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gibraltar-landbridge-or-dam\/\">Gibraltar<\/a> that was breached around 4500 BC with such a force that it also led to the destruction of a landbridge between <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a>\u00a0and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>In issue 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sykes-j-egerton-bill\/\">Egerton Sykes&#8217; <\/a><em>(Atlantean) Research <\/em>(July\/August 1948) he argued strongly against <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly&#8217;<\/a>s chosen Atlantis location of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a>. In sharp contrast, he believed that remnants of Atlantis will be found in the seas around Greece.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966, he investigated the possibility of setting up a University Chair of Atlantean Studies either in the USA or Europe<sup>(a)<\/sup>. Unfortunately, the idea did not appeal to conservative academia and was consequently shelved. I think that there is even more validity in the idea today.<\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable, therefore, that commencing January 2017, the University of Oxford offered a short course on Plato\u2019s Atlantis. The lecturer is <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kershaw-stephen-p-n\/\">Stephen P. Kershaw,<\/a> a specialist in Greek mythology<sup>(b)<\/sup>, which suggests that the lectures may only be concerned with the mythological content of the Atlantis narrative without due regard for any possible historical underpinnings. Kershaw had <em>A Brief History of Atlantis<\/em> published as a Kindle book in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250125133758\/http:\/\/www.seachild.net\/atlantology\/<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180315161815\/https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/platos-atlantis\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180315161815\/https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/courses\/platos-atlantis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. C. M Hardy was a contributor to Egerton Sykes\u2019 Atlantis magazine from its year of inception. Hardy subscribed to the view that there had been a dam at Gibraltar that was breached around 4500 BC with such a force that it also led to the destruction of a landbridge between Tunisia\u00a0and Italy. 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