{"id":4250,"date":"2010-06-13T09:03:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T09:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/young-forsyth-phyllis\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T08:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T08:31:35","slug":"young-forsyth-phyllis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/young-forsyth-phyllis\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Forsyth, Phyllis (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Phyllis<\/strong> <strong>Y<\/strong><strong>oung<\/strong><strong> F<\/strong><strong>orsyth<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><strong>(1944- )<\/strong> is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She was possibly the first to suggest a Sicilian connection with Atlantis<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><sup>266<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>. She apparently considers that Plato wrote the Atlantean story as an anti-war allegory after his own experiences with the King of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/syracuse\/\">Syracuse<\/a>, the Peloponnesian War, and the history of the defeat of the Persian invasion. In more recent years she has written on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/thera\/\">Thera<\/a> during the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bronze-age\/\">Bronze Age<\/a><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><sup>267<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> and the consequences of its catastrophic eruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phyllis Young Forsyth, (1944- ) is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She was possibly the first to suggest a Sicilian connection with Atlantis[266]. She apparently considers that Plato wrote the Atlantean story as an anti-war allegory after his own experiences with the King of Syracuse, the Peloponnesian War, and the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}