{"id":899,"date":"2010-03-28T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/899\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:25:29","slug":"899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/899\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollonius of Rhodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>pollonius<\/strong> <strong>of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius) (c.270 BC) <\/strong>was the chief librarian at Alexandria during the 3<sup>nd<\/sup> century BC. His <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apollonius-of-Rhodes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27188\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apollonius-of-Rhodes-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"Apollonius of Rhodes\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apollonius-of-Rhodes-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apollonius-of-Rhodes.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>best-known work is the <em>A<\/em><em>rgonautica <\/em><sup>[0668]<\/sup><em>,\u00a0<\/em>a reworking of the voyage of the Argonauts, in whicht he refers to the island of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantides\/\">Atlantides<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mifsud-dr-anton\/\">Anton Mifsud<\/a> has pointed out that in early editions of this book,\u00a0Apollonius located the Straits of Heracles in Syrtis Minor (Bk.IV ii.1230) as well as the existence of shoals in that gulf. However, Mifsud notes that modern translations omit this reference. Syrtis Minor was the Roman name for the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gabes-gulf-of\/\">Gulf of Gab\u00e9s<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lucanus-marcus-annaeus\/\">Lucanus<\/a>, who is more usually known as Lucan by English readers, echoed this same identification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius) (c.270 BC) was the chief librarian at Alexandria during the 3nd century BC. His best-known work is the Argonautica [0668],\u00a0a reworking of the voyage of the Argonauts, in whicht he refers to the island of Atlantides. Anton Mifsud has pointed out that in early editions of this book,\u00a0Apollonius located the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[200,1524,2952,3602,398,4012],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anton-mifsud","tag-apollonius-of-rhodes","tag-argonautica","tag-atlantides","tag-gulf-of-gabes","tag-lucanus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}