Oliver D. Smith
Independent researcher | amateur meteorologist.
Editor of Mammatus Journal. 🛸
Cloud Appreciation Society ☁️ member #58,402.
Education
- MA Classical Studies (Humanities), The Open University.
- BA (Hons) Classical Civilisation, University of Roehampton.
- Diss. Atlantis and Euhemerism: Geomythology.
Work experience
- Thames Valley Programme (Foreshore Recording and Observation Group), Museum of London Archaeology.
Publications
For a full list of my publications (including desk rejection manuscripts) see links above.
* = 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.* 🗉 [republished in appendix of Atlantis in Greece]
Conference talks / abstracts
- “Greek Myth and the Relict Hominoid Hypothesis: Satyrs and Neanderthals,” The OU 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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