About Me

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Education

• BA (Hons) Classical Civilisation, University of Roehampton.
• MA Classical Studies, The Open University.

Publications

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Articles

2023

• “Roman Phantom Ships and Superior Mirages,” Rosetta. ○
• “The Socorro UFO: A Fire Whirl?,” Mammatus Journal. ○
• “Roman UFOs and Atmosopheric Optics,” Mammatus Journal. ○
• “Nessie and Noctilucent Clouds,” Coolabah 34. ○
• “The Ariel School UFO: A Dust Devil?,” SUNlite 15, no. 3 (2023): 7-10. 🗉

2022

• “Alternative Location Hypothesis of Troy,” Fate. 🗉
• “A New Suggested Site for Troy (Yenibademli Höyük),” AJHIS 8, no. 1 (2022): 81-98.
• “Chariots and Soldiers in the Sky: Judaea (66 CE),” SUNlite 14, no. 4 (2022): 11-12.

2021

• “A Checklist of Hypotheses for the Yeti,” Academia Letters 2845 (2021): 1-12.
• “Atlantis, Lake Tritonis and Pharos,” The Robert Graves Review 1, no. 1 (2021): 207-209. 🗉
• “The Wildman of China: The Search for the Yeren,” Sino-Platonic Papers 309 (2021): 1-17. 🗉

2020

• “Atlantis and the Minoans,” Rosetta (2020): 1-27. 🗉
• “An Alternative Site for Troy on Imbros (Gökçeada),” Kerberos 2 no. 2, (2020): 61-70.

2019

• “Ancient Observations of Ball Lightning,” Corlissian 1 (2019): 4-5.
• “In Search of the Pillars of Heracles,” Kerberos 1, no. 3 (2019): 69-76.

2018

• “Hesiod and Geomythology,” Logoi 1, no. 1 (2018): 1-11.
• “The Nekromanteion of Acheron,” Neo: The Classics Students Journal (2018): 1-5. 🗉

2016

• “The Atlantis Story: An Authentic Oral Tradition?,” Shima 10, no. 2 (2016): 10-17.

2012

• Smith, Oliver D. “Atlantis as Troy?,” Damysos 1 (2012): 4-9.
• Smith, Oliver D. “Atlantis in Thessaly,” Damysos 1 (2012): 1-3.

BA (Hons) Dissertation

• Atlantis and Euhemerism: Geomythology (University of Roehampton, 2013).

Conference Papers

Title	Conference	Year
Greek Myth and the Relict Hominoid Hypothesis	OU Classical Studies WiP Day	2019
Atlantis: Fact or Fiction? [Abstract]	Dissertation presentation	2013

Books

• Atlantis in Greece (Morrisville, NC: Lulu Books, 2014).