{"id":3600,"date":"2010-06-09T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/levy-joel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:52:44","slug":"levy-joel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/levy-joel\/","title":{"rendered":"Levy, Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joel <\/strong><strong>L<\/strong><strong>evy <\/strong>is a freelance writer and researcher who lives in London. He has recently (2007) published<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>441<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> an <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Joel-Levy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24273\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Joel-Levy.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Levy\" width=\"181\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>overview of the suggested locations for Atlantis. Although he does not deal with the subject in great detail, his book is a useful primer for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, he published <em>Lost Histories<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">1008<\/a>] <\/sup><\/span>which is a review of many of the world\u2019s historical mysteries. He devotes the longest entry to the Atlantis story, but although he is rather sceptical regarding the amount of underlying truth in Plato\u2019s narrative, he does suggest that the submergence of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/helike-amended\/\">Helike<\/a> <\/span>in 373 BC may have been the inspiration behind it. However, as that inundation occurred around two centuries <strong><em>after<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/solon\/\">Solon<\/a><\/span>, this idea is hard to accept without labelling Plato a complete liar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Levy is a freelance writer and researcher who lives in London. He has recently (2007) published[441] an overview of the suggested locations for Atlantis. Although he does not deal with the subject in great detail, his book is a useful primer for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. A year earlier, [&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":[2259,376,3260,132,146],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-helike","tag-joel-levy","tag-plato","tag-solon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","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=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67269,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/67269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}