{"id":48424,"date":"2021-03-02T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=48424"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:35:00","slug":"joining-the-dots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/joining-the-dots-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Joining the Dots<\/strong> was the title of my book published over two years ago in 2018. Its intention was to show that there was cumulative evidence that demonstrating the probable reality of Atlantis and its existence in the Central Mediterranean. While individual points have limited value, when put together, it clearly shows that &#8216;the balance of probabilities&#8217; favours the existence of Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sometime after publication, Professor Heinz-G\u00fcnther Nesselrath of Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t, G\u00f6ttingen, published a review of &#8216;Dots&#8217; in the highly respected <em>Bryn Mawr Classical Review<\/em><sup>(a) <\/sup>(BMCR) and subsequently published an extended critique of my book, which is rather unusual!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I eventually completed a response to Nesselrath&#8217;s initial article and have published it <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-6307\/\">here <\/a>today (2\/3\/21).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Later in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/franke-thorwald-c\/\">Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> published his Newsletter No. 175<sup>(c)<\/sup> in which he revealed that in the course of correspondence with BMCR, they claimed that they do not review self-published books, which mine was. One can legitimately wonder why <em>Joining the Dots <\/em>was chosen for such exceptional treatment! Franke&#8217;s entire newsletter should be read.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(a)\u00a0<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2020\/2020.04.15\/\">https:\/\/bmcr.brynmawr.edu\/2020\/2020.04.15\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(b)\u00a0<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/340594821_How_Not_to_Join_the_Dots_Remarks_on_a_Flawed_Recent_Attempt_to_Locate_Atlantis\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/340594821_How_Not_to_Join_the_Dots_Remarks_on_a_Flawed_Recent_Attempt_to_Locate_Atlantis<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-bmcr-engl.htm\">https:\/\/www.atlantis-scout.de\/atlantis-bmcr-engl.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining the Dots was the title of my book published over two years ago in 2018. Its intention was to show that there was cumulative evidence that demonstrating the probable reality of Atlantis and its existence in the Central Mediterranean. While individual points have limited value, when put together, it clearly shows that &#8216;the balance [&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":[6884,4589,6886,692],"class_list":["post-48424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn-mawr-classical-review","tag-central-mediterranean","tag-joining-the-dots","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424","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=48424"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67092,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48424\/revisions\/67092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}