{"id":45130,"date":"2020-04-22T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T06:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=45130"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:35:19","slug":"annas-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/annas-julia\/","title":{"rendered":"Annas, Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Julia<\/strong><strong> A<\/strong><strong>nnas <\/strong><strong>(1946- ) <\/strong>is the British-born Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where she now lectures\u00a0and is <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JuliaAnnasBIG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45133\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JuliaAnnasBIG-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JuliaAnnasBIG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/JuliaAnnasBIG.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>currently researching Platonic ethics. A few years ago, she published her sceptical views regarding Plato&#8217;s Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup>. <a href=\"#FrankeThorwaldC\">Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has written <em>&#8220;a detailed analysis of her thoughts and show exactly where and why she is wrong concerning Atlantis although her general ideas about Plato are not wrong.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Franke&#8217;s forensic study of Annas&#8217; is another valuable contribution to Atlantis literature, highlighting that regarding Atlantis sceptics <em>&#8220;It is simply not enough that all (?) agree on the one single fact that it is an invention while proposing many contradictory reasons and interpretations for this. If it is a recognizable fiction you would expect e.g. a consolidated interpretation of the recognizable meaning of this fictional story. But there are as many invention hypotheses as there are localisation hypotheses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240714045551\/https:\/\/www.u.arizona.edu\/~jannas\/Published%20Articles\/atlantis.pdf\">Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-julia-annas-engl.htm\">https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-julia-annas-engl.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Annas (1946- ) is the British-born Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where she now lectures\u00a0and is currently researching Platonic ethics. A few years ago, she published her sceptical views regarding Plato&#8217;s Atlantis(a). Thorwald C. Franke has written &#8220;a detailed analysis of her thoughts and show exactly where and why she [&hellip;]<\/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":[6317,692],"class_list":["post-45130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-julia-annas","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130","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=45130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66446,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45130\/revisions\/66446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}