{"id":42700,"date":"2019-07-05T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=42700"},"modified":"2025-05-07T08:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:44:59","slug":"pauwels-jacques-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pauwels-jacques-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauwels, Jacques R."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jacques R. Pauwels<\/strong>, <\/strong>is a Belgian historian and a prolific writer, who touched on the subject of Atlantis in his book, Beneath the Dust of Time <\/em>[<\/sup>1656<\/a>](a)<\/sup>*<\/span><\/strong>.<\/em> In it he argued that Plato’s narrative was more than likely to have been inspired by the 2nd<\/sup> millennium BC eruption of Thera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He justified this opinion by supporting the more controversial claim that the Greek word ‘meizon<\/a>‘ meaning ‘greater’, as used by Plato (Tim.24d-e), was a mistranscription of ‘meson’ meaning ‘between’. Therefore, according to Pauwels, the text should have described Atlantis as being between Libya<\/a> and Asia<\/a> rather than greater than Libya and Asia combined, arguably pointing to Minoan<\/a> Thera as the location of Atlantis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I must point out that, apart from the fact that the idea of a transcription error is purely speculative, the description is too vague as hundreds of Aegean islands could have been described at that time as lying between Libya and Asia.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> (99+) Beneath the Dust of Time: A History of the Names of Peoples and Places | Jacques Pauwels – Academia.edu<\/a>\u00a0 *<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacques R. Pauwels, is a Belgian historian and a prolific writer, who touched on the subject of Atlantis in his book, Beneath the Dust of Time [1656](a)*. In it he argued that Plato’s narrative was more than likely to have been inspired by the 2nd millennium BC eruption of Thera.   He justified this opinion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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":[87,2094,6012,184,2016,7598,291,31],"class_list":["post-42700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aegean","tag-asia","tag-jacques-r-pauwels","tag-libya","tag-meizon","tag-meson","tag-minoans","tag-thera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42700","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42700"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63335,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42700\/revisions\/63335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}