{"id":53317,"date":"2022-03-03T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=53317"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:25:49","slug":"spyropoulos-theodore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spyropoulos-theodore\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyropoulos, Theodore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Theodore<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>pyropoulos <\/strong>is a Greek archaeologist, who is also a regional official of Greece\u2019s Central<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Archaeological Council. He is probably best known for his work in the Laconian district of Pellana, where he is credited with uncovering the lost Homeric capital of Laconia, although this claim has had its critics. He was one of the archaeologists who discovered the ruins of Akrotiri on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/santorini\/\">Santorini<\/a> in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2014, he published two short papers<sup>(a)<\/sup><sup>(b)<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0on the\u00a0<em>Ancient Origins <\/em>website, arguing for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lacedaemon\/\">Lacedaemon<\/a> as the location of Plato\u2019s Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/ancient-city-lacedaemon-it-legendary-atlantis-001723\">https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/ancient-city-lacedaemon-it-legendary-atlantis-001723<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/ancient-city-lacedaemon-it-legendary-atlantis-part-two-001725\">https:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/opinion-guest-authors\/ancient-city-lacedaemon-it-legendary-atlantis-part-two-001725<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Spyropoulos is a Greek archaeologist, who is also a regional official of Greece\u2019s Central\u00a0Archaeological Council. He is probably best known for his work in the Laconian district of Pellana, where he is credited with uncovering the lost Homeric capital of Laconia, although this claim has had its critics. He was one of the archaeologists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317","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=53317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68613,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317\/revisions\/68613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}