{"id":3498,"date":"2010-06-09T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:18:55","slug":"kontaratos-prof-antonis-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kontaratos-prof-antonis-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Kontaratos, Prof. Antonis N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Antonis N.<\/strong> <strong>K<\/strong><strong>ontaratos (? &#8211; 2011)\u00a0<\/strong>was a Greek researcher who delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Kontaratos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28107\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Kontaratos.png\" alt=\"Kontaratos\" width=\"107\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>number of papers at the 2005 and 2008 Atlantis Conferences, including one in which he highlighted<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\"><sup>255<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> the fact that either directly or indirectly, Plato states twenty-two times that the story of Atlantis is true. He concluded, \u201cthat Plato\u2019s story of Atlantis is based on a kernel of truth.\u201d He believed that the narrative contains a variety of exaggerations and that the difficulties involved in separating fact from fiction have led to the spectrum of competing theories.<\/p>\n<p>Kontaratos placed the capital of Atlantis at <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/poverty-point\/\">Poverty Point <\/a>in Louisiana, or at least it inspired some of Plato\u2019s description since <em>\u201cthere is also solid evidence that the Greeks were travelling to<\/em> <em>America in prehistoric times too and could have witnessed firsthand the impressive earthworks at Poverty Point, information which could have reached Plato independently as a fading legend&#8221;<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/n-r\/\">750<\/a>]<\/sup>. Kontaratos cited <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/plutarchus-mestrius\/\">Plutarch<\/a> to support his contention of Greek transatlantic travel in prehistory.<\/p>\n<p>Kontaratos has also appeared in a 1997 TV Documentary, <em>Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent, <\/em>hosted by Richard Crenna, as well as a 2007 episode of the <em>Digging for the Truth <\/em>TV Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Antonis N. Kontaratos (? &#8211; 2011)\u00a0was a Greek researcher who delivered a number of papers at the 2005 and 2008 Atlantis Conferences, including one in which he highlighted[255] the fact that either directly or indirectly, Plato states twenty-two times that the story of Atlantis is true. He concluded, \u201cthat Plato\u2019s story of Atlantis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[379,378,377],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kontaratos","tag-plutarch","tag-poverty-point"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69282,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/69282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}