{"id":3865,"date":"2010-06-11T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schmeck-alfred-e\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:20:37","slug":"schmeck-alfred-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schmeck-alfred-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmeck, Alfred E. *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Schmeck-book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30543\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Schmeck-book-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Schmeck book\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Schmeck-book-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Schmeck-book.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Alfred E.<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>chmeck<\/strong> <strong>(1934-2003)<\/strong> is a retired German engineer who proposed in a short (80-page)\u00a02003 book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>542<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>\u00a0that Atlantis was merely an expression of Plato\u2019s conception of a Utopian state. He contended that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/syracuse\/\">Syracuse<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a> provided the geographical inspiration for the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has written a critique<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> of Schmeck&#8217;s theory.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210921115539\/https:\/\/mysteria3000.de\/magazin\/schmeck-atlantis-platons-idealstaat\/\">Schmeck: Atlantis \u2013 Platons Idealstaat \u2013 Mysteria3000 (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> (German)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred E. Schmeck (1934-2003) is a retired German engineer who proposed in a short (80-page)\u00a02003 book[542]\u00a0that Atlantis was merely an expression of Plato\u2019s conception of a Utopian state. He contended that Syracuse in Sicily provided the geographical inspiration for the story. Thorwald C. Franke has written a critique(a) of Schmeck&#8217;s theory. (a) Schmeck: Atlantis \u2013 [&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":[1938,101,336,692,4737],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alfred-e-schmeck","tag-sicily","tag-syracuse","tag-thorwald-c-franke","tag-utopia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","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=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56412,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/56412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}