{"id":3969,"date":"2010-06-11T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/statius-sebosus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:56:32","slug":"statius-sebosus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/statius-sebosus\/","title":{"rendered":"Statius Sebosus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>tatius<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>ebosus <\/strong>was a Greek geographer who flourished around 100 BC and was not contemporary with Plato, as frequently claimed. His comment that it was 40 days&#8217; sail from the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gorgades\/\">Gorgades<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hesperides\/\">Hesperides<\/a> have excited a number of investigators, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/collins-andrew\/\">Andrew Collins<\/a>. The Gordades are generally accepted to have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cape-verde-islands\/\">Cape Verde Islands.<\/a> However, the identification of the Hesperides has been more controversial, with the more popular view being that they were the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a>. Nevertheless, Collins has bravely suggested a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/caribbean-atlantis\/\">Caribbean<\/a> location for the Hesperides in his <em>G<\/em><em>ateway to <\/em><em>A<\/em><em>tlantis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statius Sebosus was a Greek geographer who flourished around 100 BC and was not contemporary with Plato, as frequently claimed. His comment that it was 40 days&#8217; sail from the Gorgades to the Hesperides have excited a number of investigators, particularly Andrew Collins. The Gordades are generally accepted to have been the Cape Verde Islands. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68620,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/68620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}