Oliver D. Smith
Independent researcher and amateur meteorologist from England. I have a broad range of interests including cryptozoology, Atlantis, UFOs, crop circles, clouds and Troy. Contact: 📧 (@oliveratlantis).
Cloud Appreciation Society ☁️ member #58,402.
Education
- BSc Meteorology, Bircham International University.
- MA Classical Studies, The Open University.
- BA (Hons) Classical Civilisation, University of Roehampton.
- Dissertation: Atlantis and Euhemerism: Geomythology.
- AS/A Level Classical Civilisation, National Extension College.
Work experience
- Thames Valley Programme (Foreshore Recording and Observation Group), Museum of London Archaeology.
Publications
A full list of my publications (including desk rejection manuscripts) can be found on the above hyperlinks.
* = peer-reviewed | 🗉 = supplement/errata/note.
2022
“Nessie and Noctilucent Clouds: A Meteorological Explanation for Some Loch Ness Monster Sightings,” Coolabah [forthcoming].*
“Chariots and Soldiers in the Sky: Judaea (66 CE),” SUNlite 14, no. 4 (2022): 11–12.
“Alternative Location Hypotheses of Troy,” Fate (June 3 2022). 🗉
“A New Suggested Site for Troy (Yenibademli Höyük),” Athens Journal of History 8, no. 1 (2022): 81–98.*
2021
“Atlantis, Lake Tritonis and Pharos,” The Robert Graves Review (Journal of the Robert Graves Society) 1, no. 1 (2021): 215–217.
Print ISSN: 2635-0890.
“A Checklist of Hypotheses for the Yeti,” Academia Letters no. 2845 (2021): 1–12.*
“The Wildman of China: The Search for the Yeren,” Sino-Platonic Papers no. 309 (2021): 1–17.* 🗉
2020
“An Alternative Site for Troy on Imbros (Gökçeada),” Kerberos: KCL’s Classics Undergraduate Research Journal 2, no. 2 (2020): 61–70.*
“Atlantis and the Minoans,” Rosetta [failed peer-review]. 🗉
2019
“In Search of the Pillars of Heracles,” Kerberos: KCL’s Classics Undergraduate Research Journal 1, no. 3 (2019): 69–76.*
2018
“Hesiod and Geomythology,” Logoi: The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate Classics Journal 1, no. 1 (2018): 1–11.*
2016
“The Atlantis Story: An Authentic Oral Tradition?,” Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 10, no. 2 (2016) 10–17.* 🗉
2014
Atlantis in Greece (Morrisville, NC: Lulu Books, 2014).
Out of print.
2012
“Atlantis as Troy? A Rebuttal of Eberhard Zangger’s Hypothesis,” Damysos: Roehampton’s Classics Journal 1 no. 1 (2012): 4–9.*
“Atlantis in Thessaly,” Damysos: Roehampton’s Classics Journal 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–3.* 🗉
Conference talks / abstracts
“Greek Myth and the Relict Hominoid Hypothesis: Satyrs and Neanderthals,” The Open University Classical Studies Postgraduate WiP Day (Milton Keynes, May 9 2019).
“Atlantis: Fact or Fiction?,” University of Roehampton (London, April 24 2013).
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