{"id":56195,"date":"2022-09-11T06:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=56195"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:08:37","slug":"arcadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/arcadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>rcadia<\/strong> is a central region of the Peloponnese in Greece. It is one of a number of locations that have been proposed as inspiring elements of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56198 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Arcadia.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> story. One proponent is <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/smith-oliver-d-n\/\">Oliver D. Smith<\/a> who argues that <em>&#8220;Plato based his king Atlas on a mythical Arcadian king of the same name and his main inspiration for Atlantis was the town Methydrium and nearby city Megalopolis, both in Arcadia.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This, together with some other details, such as similarities between the ten <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/kings-of-atlantis\/\">kings of Atlantis<\/a> and the ten kings of Arcadia, led Smith to his conclusion<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/hcommons.org\/deposits\/item\/hc:38877\/\">https:\/\/hcommons.org\/deposits\/item\/hc:38877\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcadia is a central region of the Peloponnese in Greece. It is one of a number of locations that have been proposed as inspiring elements of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis story. One proponent is Oliver D. Smith who argues that &#8220;Plato based his king Atlas on a mythical Arcadian king of the same name and his main [&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":[7384,3778,2214,3791],"class_list":["post-56195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arcadia","tag-kings-of-atlantis","tag-oliver-d-smith","tag-peloponnese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56195","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=56195"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65338,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56195\/revisions\/65338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}