{"id":4104,"date":"2010-06-12T14:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theopompus-of-chios\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:07:27","slug":"theopompus-of-chios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theopompus-of-chios\/","title":{"rendered":"Theopompus of Chios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>heopompus<\/strong> <strong>of Chios <\/strong><strong>(c. 4<sup>th<\/sup> Cent. BC.)<\/strong> is quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aelian\/\">Aelian<\/a> (i) where he seems to describe a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/continent\/\">continent<\/a> on the far side of the Atlantic in terms similar to Plato\u2019s account of Atlantis. This excerpt is reputed to be from Theopompus\u2019 play, <em>Philippica<\/em>, which is thought to have parodied <sup><a href=\"#Solon\">Solon<\/a><\/sup>\u2019s Atlantis poem, which, if true, adds credence to the view that Atlantis was not just an invention of Plato\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/zhirov-nicolai-feodosyevich\/\">N. Zhirov<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><sup>458<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> urges caution as \u2018Theopompus was considered a writer of fables even in antiquity\u2019.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kershaw-stephen-p-n\/\">Stephen P. Kershaw <\/a>notes that Aelian <em>&#8220;exposes how Theopompus quite flagrantly ripped off the Timaeus and the Critias.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">1585<\/a>.109]<\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> points out<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><sup>021<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that Theopompus referred to Atlanteans as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/meropes\/\">Meropes<\/a>. In spite of any misgivings\u00a0about the reliability of Theopompus, some commentators continue to claim that he did accept the existence of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>(i) <em>V<\/em><em>ariae<\/em><em> H<\/em><em>istoriae<\/em> (III, 18)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theopompus of Chios (c. 4th Cent. BC.) is quoted by Aelian (i) where he seems to describe a continent on the far side of the Atlantic in terms similar to Plato\u2019s account of Atlantis. This excerpt is reputed to be from Theopompus\u2019 play, Philippica, which is thought to have parodied Solon\u2019s Atlantis poem, which, if [&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":[971,2259,108,5130,2048,132,146,4725,5129],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aelian","tag-atlantis","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-meropes","tag-nikolai-zhirov","tag-plato","tag-solon","tag-stephen-p-kershaw","tag-theopompus-of-chios"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","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=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69614,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/69614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}