{"id":357,"date":"2009-12-24T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=357"},"modified":"2022-10-08T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:13:58","slug":"ralph-van-deman-magoffin-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ralph-van-deman-magoffin-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Magoffin, Ralph van Deman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ralph van Deman<\/strong> <strong>M<\/strong><strong>agoffin<\/strong> <strong>(1874-1942) <\/strong>was the nephew of Esther Boise Van Deman (1862\u20131937), a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Magoffin-RVD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40355\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Magoffin-RVD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>In his own right, Magoffin was a professor of classical archaeology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and was also honorary president of the Archaeological Institute of America.<\/p>\n<p>He is credited by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/childress-david-hatcher\/\">Hatcher Childress<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>620<\/sup><\/a><sup>.101]<\/sup> as having been a supporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/crete\/\">Crete<\/a> as the location of Atlantis, in his 1929 book, <em>The Romance of Archaeology <\/em>[1383]+<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span> This idea was very much\u00a0in vogue in the early decades of the 20th century. In fact, the following year Magoffin expanded on his views in his <em>Lure and Lore of Archaeology <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>1384<\/sup><\/a><em><sup>.<\/sup><\/em><sup>34]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup> when he wrote that Atlantis was <em>\u201cfirst probably a traditionalized Crete, and then successively<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a> <\/i><\/span><em>and one of the <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cape-verde-islands\/\">Cape Verde islands<\/a>, <\/i><\/span><em>as discovery compelled Atlantis to recede westward ahead of geographical certainty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>[1383]<\/sup>\u00a0 Read online: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/romanceofarchaeo00mago\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/romanceofarchaeo00mago<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>[1384]<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.b3143453;view=1up;seq=1\">https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.b3143453;view=1up;seq=1<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph van Deman Magoffin (1874-1942) was the nephew of Esther Boise Van Deman (1862\u20131937), a leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his own right, Magoffin was a professor of classical archaeology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and was also honorary president of the Archaeological Institute of America. He [&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":[2038,63,99,5783,1919,101],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cape-verde-islands","tag-crete","tag-david-hatcher-childress","tag-esther-boise-van-deman","tag-ralph-magoffin","tag-sicily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56604,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/56604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}