{"id":53317,"date":"2022-03-03T08:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T08:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=53317"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T08:47:28","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\u00a0Council. He is probably best known for his work in the Laconian district of Pellana where he is credited with\u00a0uncovering the lost\u00a0Homeric\u00a0capital of\u00a0Laconia, although, this claim has had its critics.\u00a0He 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\u00a0Council. He is probably best known for his work in the Laconian district of Pellana where he is credited with\u00a0uncovering the lost\u00a0Homeric\u00a0capital of\u00a0Laconia, although, this claim has had its critics.\u00a0He was one of the archaeologists who discovered the ruins of Akrotiri [&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":[],"class_list":["post-53317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53320,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53317\/revisions\/53320"}],"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}]}}