{"id":4242,"date":"2010-06-13T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wright-erick\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:41:38","slug":"wright-erick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wright-erick\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright, Erick W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Erick<\/strong> <strong>W<\/strong><strong>right<\/strong> is an American atlantologist who was a regular contributor to <em>Atlantis Rising<\/em> forums\u00a0in which he has been an enthusiastic supporter of a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/morocco-revised\/\">Moroccan<\/a> location for Atlantis. However, as his investigations proceeded he felt obliged to change his views and then opted for a Southern <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/turkey\/\">Turkey<\/a> site<sup>(b) <\/sup>. This was followed by a dramatic expression of agnosticism regarding the very existence of Atlantis. In 2005 he presented a paper at the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantis-conference-%e2%80%93-melos-2005\/\">Atlantis Conference <\/a>on Melos <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\">629<\/a>]<\/sup> in which he outlined his ongoing research into the original Egyptian meanings of the names of the characters in the Atlantis story that were given to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/solon\/\">Solon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright is among a significant number of commentators who saw the story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples <\/a><em>&#8220;to be the most likely connection to the Atlantis story, as there are definite parallels between the two stories.&#8221;<\/em> <sup>[p.105]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Because I have done my own metaphrastic translation and I have followed the clues left to me by that translation, and that translation has led me to a very &#8216;un-popular&#8217; conclusion, specifically that the Atlantis story is the story of the Invasions of the Libyans and Sea Peoples.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup>Atlantis Forums 274 (link broken)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130718184625\/http:\/forums.atlantisrising.com:80\/ubb\/Forum1\/HTML\/000855.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130718184625\/http:\/\/forums.atlantisrising.com:80\/ubb\/Forum1\/HTML\/000855.html<\/a>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Wright is an American atlantologist who was a regular contributor to Atlantis Rising forums\u00a0in which he has been an enthusiastic supporter of a Moroccan location for Atlantis. However, as his investigations proceeded he felt obliged to change his views and then opted for a Southern Turkey site(b) . This was followed by a dramatic [&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":[1210,1409,1272,59,60,146,669],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2005-atlantis-conference","tag-erick-wright","tag-melos","tag-morocco","tag-sea-peoples","tag-solon","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","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=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64793,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/64793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}