{"id":46153,"date":"2020-09-12T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=46153"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:41:23","slug":"james-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/james-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"James, Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Thomas James <\/strong>was the 18th century author of <em>The History of the Herculean Straits, <\/em>in which he offered support for the idea of Atlantis in America <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">1739<\/a>.1.216]<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Neville Chipulina, a Gibraltarian, concluded his blog on the Pillars<sup>(a)<\/sup> with a quote from James&#8217; 1771 book, who said &#8211; <em>&#8220;The reader will observe by the great disagreement of authors, the almost impossibility of absolutely vouching for the truth of any fact.<\/em> &#8221; In 1854, Wm. Smith&#8217;s <em>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography<\/em> <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">1719<\/a>]<\/sup> summed up this uncertainty regarding the Pillars of Herakles by noting that &#8220;<em>when the ancient writers began to investigate the matter more closely, they were greatly divided in opinion as to\u00a0<strong>where<\/strong>\u00a0the Pillars were to be sought,\u00a0<strong>what\u00a0<\/strong>they were, and\u00a0<strong>why<\/strong> they were called by the name of Hercules.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/gibraltar-intro.blogspot.ie\/2015\/10\/bc-pillars-of-hercules-if-ordinary.html\">https:\/\/gibraltar-intro.blogspot.ie\/2015\/10\/bc-pillars-of-hercules-if-ordinary.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas James was the 18th century author of The History of the Herculean Straits, in which he offered support for the idea of Atlantis in America [1739.1.216]. Neville Chipulina, a Gibraltarian, concluded his blog on the Pillars(a) with a quote from James&#8217; 1771 book, who said &#8211; &#8220;The reader will observe by the great disagreement [&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":[43,5534,1023,6485],"class_list":["post-46153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-neville-chipulina","tag-pillars-of-herakles","tag-thomas-james"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153","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=46153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66915,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46153\/revisions\/66915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}